Gridfailure have announced that their new full-length, Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III, is to be released on October 3rd, via the Nefarious Industries record label. It is the third installment of the band’s current, ambitious, five-album concept series. They recently shared the record’s lead single, Extermination Level Eventuality,” with a video. Check it out below and find out more.
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Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III will be released through all digital services and on cassette, alongside a limited cassette box set containing all three Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery albums, on. Digital presaves and additional videos/singles will follow over the weeks ahead. The first three albums in the arc – Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery I, II, and III – span the current unraveling of society, oblivious to the ongoing Anthropocene in which we’re immersed, the violent chapters of this triptych embody a harbinger, prophesizing the post-apocalyptic terrors to be told on the impending closing chapters of the album series – Teeth Collection and Drought Stick.
The subtitle for the first chapter of this ominous Gridfailure sequence was Survivor’s Remorse, the second was As Resources Are Depleted So Are Morals, and now, the subtitle for Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III, bears the subtitle Acquiring A Taste, as humanity embraces and exalts this downfall. Depicted within Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III is the mass-enslavement of populations, rampant cannibalization, prevalent desire and addiction to homicide, and more, amidst ever-worsening extreme weather disasters, with humanity losing the war we’ve waged on our own planet. With over eighty minutes of Gridfailure’s demoralizing and confrontational battery, the record expands the project’s genre-bending experimentalism, with bizarre and theatrical excursions into jazz, classical, techno, folk, black metal, Americana, and more infused into its merciless post-industrial foundation. As with the rest of the series, Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III infuses material spanning Gridfailure‘s existence, with recordings dating back to 2015, and elements recorded outdoors during extreme weather events.
Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III was written by Gridfailure creator David Brenner who performs primary vocals and an array of guitars, bass, drums/percussion, keys, synth, violin, theremin, field recordings, and other instruments/tactics, while orchestrating the project’s most extensive cast of collaborators to date. The album features additional lyrics, vocals, and guitar from Steve Austin (Today Is The Day) on five of its fifteen songs, as well as performances by Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum, Ionophore), Mac Gollehon (live/session for David Bowie, Duran Duran, Onyx, Blondie, Héctor Lavoe), Benjamin Levitt (Megalophobe, Gridfailure-live), Richard Muller (Giant Spider, Gridfailure-live), Greg Meisenberg (A Fucking Elephant, Dead Register, Gridfailure-live), Lane Oliver (Yatsu, Diminishing), Jeff Wilson (Chrome Waves, Deeper Graves), Christopher Henry (Fuck Your Birthday, Humans Etcetera), Graham Scala (US Christmas, Interstitia, Bleach Everything), Dan Emery (Thetan), BJ Allen (Zero Trust), Clayton Bartholomew (Mountaineer), No One (T.O.M.B., Dreadlords), Morgan Evans (Walking Bombs), Hazard (Hasard, Les Chants Du Hasard), Pranjal Tiwari (Cardinal Wyrm, S.C.R.A.M.), Jared Stimpfl (Secret Cutter, Orphan Donor), Natan Vee (Cardinal Wyrm, Fyrhtu), Mike Giuliano (Big Happy), Josh Thorne (Cadaver Industry), Alex Haber, Rosa Henriquez, Pete Tsakiris, Isaac Campbell, and Rob Levitt.
With some of the guest contributions recorded by the respective artists, Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III was performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by David Brenner at The Compound in Valley Cottage, New York. The album was mastered by Dan Emery at Black Matter Mastering in Nashville, Tennessee (Kool Keith, Steve Von Till, Krieg), and completed with cover art, design, photography, and videos by Brenner.
Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III tracklisting:
01 Subdividing The Survivors
02 Extermination Level Eventuality
03 Hybrid Warfare In Defense Of One’s Habitat
04 Anthropophagiae Nationis
05 Drunk On The Blood Of My Neighbor
06 Vestiges
07 Ration Distribution/Processed For Storage
08 Communal Taxidermy
09 This Was More Than Just Killing… It Was Art
10 Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III: Acquiring A Taste
11 Maria
12 Necrotizing Fasciitis
13 End In Sight
14 Species Deconstructivist
15 Transmissions Cease
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