Coal’s self-titled debut is a crushing rejection of the hive-mind colony of your scene, your values and your reality, not an escape, not a distraction, but a true-vision of the world in all its grotesque, hate-filled glory. Listeners will step away from this record as from a Coal show, cleansed, purged and altered.
After initial flirtations with the project being a ‘live electronic act’ proved unsatisfying, Anthony Arcana & Oliver Kohlenberg chose to morph the project into something unbound: hoarse-barked, one-line lyrics, mutant chainsaw guitar feedback and drums that sound like a nightmare, Kronenberg trash-compactor collide to form their own world. Coal’s sound is a blurred vision of influences, fusing elements of post-metal, hip-hop, black-metal, American hardcore, sludge, doom, jungle and trap into something that feels cathartic, potent, whole and unique.
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Releases May 1, 2019 on Instruments of Discipline
All songs written by Coal
Mastered at Dadub
Mastered at Dadub
DATES:
1/5 - Tape - Aarhus, DK
2/5 - Mayhem - Copenhagen, DK
4/5 - Urban Spree - Berlin, DE
7/5 - Hradec Kralove, CZ
8/5 - Brno, CZ
9/5 - Chmury - Warsaw, PL
10/5 - Lodz, PL OPERANT.COAL.SKROTTEN.FRYC.SKOK.URBAN INDUSTRIAL TECHNO
11/5 - Wroclaw, PL
12/5 - FUGA -Bratislava, SK
13/5 - Kset -Zagreb, HR
14/5 - Budapest, HK
15/5 - Kubik - Trnava, SK
16/5 - Kosice, SK
17/5 - Linz, AT
18/5 - Underdogs - Prague, CZ
19/5 - Dresden, DE