Written between 2018 and 2020
Recorded in 2020 at Synthesis Studio, NMG recording studio, AborymLab
Mixed and mastered by Andrea Corvo at Synthesis Studio
Production Keith Hillebrandt
Graphic & Layout Giannese, Saturno Butto
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[In 1986, the Soviet city of Pripyat was thriving, a socialist utopia with good housing and a young population, built to house the workers for the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant - better known today as Chernobyl. On 26 April that year, everything changed.
A late-night test at the plant's number four reactor went catastrophically wrong, causing a huge steam explosion. It was just the start of what would become the world's worst nuclear accident, a tragedy that would have repercussions for years to come.]
lyrics
Radiophobia
Can’t you see? the màssive gaping hole
and the awful scarlet glow
Uranium 235, a bullet
running at the speed of light
Алло. Это ВПЧ-2?
Да.
Что у вас там горит?
Взрыв… на главком корпусе… между третим и четвертым блоком.
А там люди есть?
Да.
Подымай наш состав.
Подымаю. Начальника поднял.
Всех. Всех. Весь состав, офицерский корпус подымай!
Can’t you see? the màssive gaping hole
and the awful scarlet glow
A place where ruin itself
has planted its seed
This place was built for sin
Tell me why you make things so complicated?
you can neither expiate
nor mystify the mistakes
Nothing can be erased, nothing canceled
Pain endures in the beating hearts
inflamed memory of fear
Леонид Алексеевич?
Да.
Алло. Припять. Третий и четвертый блок в результате аварии. Взрыва.
…давай. Так уже подтвердили?
Не подтвердили. Там авария произошла у них. Это диспетчер Припяти сказала.
Пожарная охрана.
Алло. Иванков?
Да-да.
Значит. Вы выезжаете в Припять… алло!
Да-да, я слышу.
На атомную станцию выезжайте. Там третий, четвертый блок горит крыша.
Fire in the turbine hall
black smoke
The core exploded. It’s all right
meltdown
A prayer, or a memory
a goodbye
and the mute sound of the world
fades away
Intense, searing pain
it’s all right
tons of burning steel
and graphite
Terrible kaleidoscope
bloodline
One aims. Another falls. decline
The album description mentions an “emotional apex.” That’s really the difference between Stare and the band’s previous albums. Ulcerate was always supremely technically proficient. I just didn’t care all that much. Their growth has come from making music you will feel. Metallurgical Fire
If there ever was a timely album to sum up the United States in 2020, this is it. Elements of black metal, hymnals, call-and-response, sampled news audio, and Manuel's amazing voice come together to form a beautifully tortured sound.
The term 'avant-garde' is rightfully earned with every moment of this EP. mistermunn
amazing work and contributions to the album. Love all of Igorrr's work.
Love the records zoetrope art, need a strobe light to see them in action i believe.. Shirks DireWolf