Worship Is the Cleansing of the Imagination | JK Flesh / Prurient | Hydra Head Records

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Worship Is the Cleansing of the Imagination

by JK Flesh / Prurient

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Gerofff terse industrial grind Favorite track: Obedient Automaton.

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DAS VILLAIN Marrying harsh dance, industrial, power electronics, and straight-up noise, JK Flesh/Prurient is some of the most awesome music from Justin...and all of his music and side-projects are fucking amazing! Favorite track: Entering the Water.

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Jorge I don not quite understand why this piece makes me feel the way i do. I just resonate Favorite track: I Understand You.

Amie the tracks that are missing from spotify are the best ones. well, except for I Understand You which is more of a mellow prurient jam. Favorite track: I Understand You.

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Derek Piotrowicz Justin Broadrick back again to give us an amazing album.

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	1.	JK Flesh - Fear of Fear 05:20
	2.	JK Flesh - Deceiver 05:35
	3.	JK Flesh - Obedient Automaton 05:26
	4.	Prurient - Chosen Books 05:52
	5.	Prurient - Entering the Water 04:34
	6.	Prurient - I Understand You 07:18
	7.	JK Flesh - JK Flesh Merges Prurient 1 05:23
	8.	JK Flesh - JK Flesh Merges Prurient 2 07:52
	9.	House of Low Culture - Mundanity of Suspended Anxiety (Prurient remix) 07:00

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JK Flesh is the new alias adopted by Justin Broadrick, the man behind revered extreme music pioneers like Napalm Death, Godﬂesh, and Jesu. But Broadrick has also always been a sonic explorer into new realms of dark, experimental electronic-fueled music, whether in his early ambient forays under the moniker Final, the warped club-music throb of Techno Animal, or his more recent caustic bludgeonings as part of the Greymachine collaboration. As JK Flesh, Broadrick has taken his knowledge of electronic sound manipulation and his penchant for violent and foreboding music and melded them into one of his most alarming and abrasive releases to date. Inspired by contemporary
artists like Prurient and their noise scene crossover industrial dance music, JK Flesh ﬁnds Broadrick rekindling his passion for the brutal, heavy, and caustic sounds that ﬁrst put him on the map while employing the electronic components that have pushed his music forward.
It’s only ﬁtting then that JK Flesh would team up with a bright new noisemaker like Dominick Fernow. Under his alias as Prurient, Fernow’s extensive discography delves into pure, unadulterated noise but also veers into more synth-conjured, melody-driven compositions. You might ﬁnd Fernow alone on a stage, shirt oﬀ, shrieking into his table of electronics, or you might ﬁnd him on stage as a member of Cold Cave’s neo-EBM live band. It’s a duality directly inspired by Broadrick’s legacy, and thus a perfect compliment to a split album release. e resultant split oﬀers up two distinct voices experimenting with a similar theme—how close can you come to total cacophony while still transmitting the basic components of a traditional song? How ﬁlthy and wretched can you render your tones while still hinting at a melody? How far can you
deconstruct a beat while still sustaining a recognizable rhythm?
Worship Is e Cleansing Of e Imagination is a product of mutual admiration, a result of two generations of artists inspiring each other and feeding oﬀ their sonic revelations. It’s only ﬁtting that this meeting of minds, this exercise in mining new territories, and this bridging of a generational gap serves as the ﬁnal release for the long-running art-metal label Hydra Head Records. While both an acknowledgment of an artist that served as an impetus to the label and an embrace of one of the underground’s most daring and invigorating young noisemakers, this split release perfectly encapsulates Hydra Head’s musical vision. While the self-proclaimed “imminent demise” of the label is certainly a tragic blow to the international community built around Hydra Head’s art metal predilections, it’s reassuring to see their swan song so perfectly capture the essence of its mission statement. Prepare to be pummeled.

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released January 8, 2013

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