(SOLD OUT)SCAR OO8: -Subklinik "Musik For Dekomposition" C-30 100 Copies



-Never before released full length recording.
-Mastered and pressed on c-30 black chrome 24Cr tapes. First 50 copies come with exclusive acetate cover design(see last picture) and 11x17 poster of front cover artwork.
-Inspired by: Reality. Death, darkness, isolationism, sickness, perversion, cold. Atrax Morgue, MB, Korpse Korpses Katatonik, Mauthausen Orchestra, Brighter Death Now.
-Available: 80/100 copies.
-Price: $8(US/CANADA/MEXICO) $10(Rest Of World). $1 more for Paypal. Price is postpaid.

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SUBKLINIK continues to create some of the darkest death-industrial / necro-soundscapes in existence. SUBKLINIK has released many substantial recordings throughout the years that are either sold out or extremely hard to find. Electronic terror from the darkest depths of the mind. There is NOTHING beyond death...


RELEASES:

PT.I:PT.II - 7" - Waggletone Records

Unearthly Graves - MC ltd to 30 copies - Hour Of 13 Productions

Unearthly Graves - T-shirt - 12 white - Hour Of 13 Productions

Feasting On Souls - 2xMC ltd. to 100 first 30 w/ medical instrument - Slaughter Productions

Cremator - CD - Slaughter Productions

Dawn Of Desekration - CD - Live Bait Recording Foundation

Abominari w/ BAAL / DEISON / SUBKLINIK - AVA-ES1

Insights of the Profane - comp CD - MaKahru Dist.

Tabula Rasa - comp CD - Tabula Rasa

Premonitions Of Death - CD - Slaughter Productions

Death Invokation (Ritual Pt.II) - CD ltd to 20 copies in slipcase - AssertiveAktionUSA

Cremated Graves - CD - ltd to 100 copies - Katatonik Produkt

Musik For Dekomposition - T-shirts - 12 black / 12 white - Katatonik Produkt

Rare Remains - CD - ltd to 20 copies - Katatonik Produkt

UPCOMING RELEASES:

Morgue - T-Shirt - Katatonik Produkt

Musik For Dekomposition - CD - ltd to 50 copies - Katatonik Produkt

Musik For Dekomposition - CD - Overseas issue by Fall Of Nature

Unearthly Graves - CD - Reissue ltd to 50 copies - Katatonik Produkt

Black Kommunion - CD - tracks from The Abominari comp ltd to 50 copies - Katatonik Produkt

Korpororz:Induztrial - CD - New recordings showing a progression/regression of the SUBKLINIK sound into a more minimalistic and organic source. Still very much SUBKLINIK! Out in March 2010 on Katatonik Produkt.





"Never before released full length recording from Subklink, who create some of darkest, most morbid death industrial/necro-soundscapes in existence, as inspired by reality, death, darkness, isolationism, sickness, perversion, cold, Atrax Morgue, MB, Korpse Korpses Katatonik, Mauthausen Orchestra, Brighter Death Now. Lo-fi, unsettling, and ultra grim, this immediately takes me back to the early-mid' 90s and the heyday of the Slaughter cassette scene" JASON(MALIGNANT RECORDS)


"Browsing the forum boards a couple of weeks ago and found the cassette "Musik For Dekomposition" being advertised. Troniks / I Heart Noise forum board thingy. Something struck a chord in the sub conscious and I put pen to paypal and ordered a copy. It was whilst going through some LP's a couple of days back that I realised that I had a Subklinik track on the "Natural Order" compilation set thatStateArt put out in 1997. (White Box copy). Damn good track too - so that information must have been sat there in the dark recesses of....for 13 years and the name pops up again.
Research time. Subklinik is the project name of Chad Davis (what is Chad short for)? from Mass. USA. The cassette (a one-sided C30) comes packaged in a 7" single sleeve with a transparent cover. Reminded here of the Controlled Bleeding cassette "Distress Signals" that Broken Flag put out in the mid 1980's. Infact the whole package has a sense of mid 1980's. Style and content. All "C"'s are replaced with "K"'s : "Extraktion Procedure" + "Final Dekomposition" as exhibit A + B. Back in the mid 1980's I flirted with a couple of solo projects / releases as A:A:K + The Streetcleaner. "D.M.P.K. - Dead Meat Packaging Korps" being an album title of The Streetcleaner with "Konvulse Kontrol" + "Produktion" being a couple of tracks. It was a sign of the times. S.P.K. and Nekrophile being shining lights to us all back then. Even Michael DeWitt gets a "thanks" in the credits on this release.
It is good stuff. It is damn good stuff. All the sounds, the dark swirling electronic sounds come from 20+ year old machines. It created a fog whilst I was listening to it and it all ended too soon. Apart from a couple of Zero Kama reissues I have nought from theNekrophile catalogue anymore, this is a great reminder of those days. (1985/6). Strangely European for an American - file alongside Praying For Oblivion"



"Small No Visible Scars label have thrown out some good releases now and then and I've been pleasantly surprised with every one of those I've had a chance to hear. After listening to this tape it seems that it's time to quit being surprised and take the quality of the releases as a fact. No Visible Scars would surprise me if it'd release something awful (I hope that won't happen). I've heard just the title of this project until this cassette. Musik for Dekomposition is the tenth release of Subklinik in 15 years of activity. Initiator of this project, Chad Davis, is more or less active for 20 years not only in industrial, but also in black metal scene. All in all I count 16 projects that were or are still active. Truth to say I was a little sceptical about this release until the very first seconds of it took me by storm. In latter years I had an impression that if the release is described as inspired by/dedicated to Marco Corbelli (this does not go for this album. Between the inspirations of this album are: Reality. Death, darkness, isolationism, sickness, perversion, cold. Atrax Morgue, MB, Korpses Katatonik, Mauthausen Orchestra, Brighter Death Now etc.), most of the time you get some cheap waste. At the moment I remember at least 3 cases when under "dedicated to/inspired by Atrax Morgue" I found weak and non qualitative, boring minimalistic tones of cheap digital synths where their puniness, lack of motivation, idea and atmosphere or simply ignorance of the creator was tried to be covered with a famous name. Atrax Morgue was torment and lust for death and you could feel that with every cell in your body in some of his releases while the horde of his so called "followers" has nothing to offer, but a rare decent record. In the case of this album, I think that it's not a coincidence that the very first release of Subklinik was released via Slaughter productions. Since the very first seconds of the record the listener swallows a dark, devouring from inside worm and you can feel how it's eating you. Filthy sound of modular synth in this cassette sounds as it would've been recorded a couple decades ago. The first three tracks in the album are touched by some ritualistic mood when fragments of distant voice under effects sounds above disillusioned tones of synth. :Dekomposition I: is one of the most dismal tracks in this tape. Fragments of voice drowned in slow synth pulsations and periodical short bursts of noisier tone. Uneasy atmosphere drawing you in and drowning in poisonous juices of this album. The second track is different - almost rhythmical, not that oppressive as the first one, but it does not let go the mood of weird analog ritual. There are less vocals or at least it seems that way in the third one. This track once more overlies you with its full power and plunge you into stuffy modular minimalism. Vortices of absolute monotony, bleakness and minimalism goes in the next two tracks. It seems as it would be the other part of the album. A little different, a little lighter in places, but in places beating you with slow lines of sounds. It seems that they are coming from somewhere There, from darkness of the past, bringing fragments of death and leisurely implanting them under your skin so that you could feel the end of yourself everywhere you go. :Final Dekomposition: finishes this tape. Very uncomfortable atmosphere is created in those despairing loops and modest development. All this tape, that plays for half an hour is one long leaden nightmare. You don't want it to end. You're afraid of something Unknown, Unseen, Untouchable. But most of all you wish to wait and listen to these sounds more and more even if understanding that the acquaintance with Unknown might be disastrous. Or maybe it's better than reality you know? I liked this one. Forceful and strong work of Subklinik." (TeRRoR zine)


"It looks like Subklinik’s Chad Davis from Massachusetts has had a busy time since recording this charming suite two winters’ ago, apparently inspired by “death, darkness, isolationism, sickness, perversion, [and] cold…”. In the meantime he has also managed to record a second album under the name Mortuor - his ‘power electronics’ guise, a debut album as Anu – his black metal mode, while playing keyboards for space rockers, US Christmas, and joining forces with vocalist Phil Swanson as Hour of 13, a doom metal project. So seemingly led by the more darkly dramatic of genres, Subklinik is perhaps his most prolific pseudonym, reserved for investigations into early industrial sounds.
Musik for Dekomposition has six such ‘movements’ across half an hour, each employing modular analog synthesisers to create very similar combinations that, once established early on, are left to permeate a bleak and barren atmosphere with minimal modulation. The cassette opens to a machinic throb whose fast spin cycle is interrupted regularly by a crushed, distorted stab that keeps time as an abrasive wind rises and falls. Similar monotonous layers form the basis of all tracks, recalling the limited palette that underscored TG’s early work.

Points of difference can be found, though: the first three tracks have a subtly submerged baritone vocal intoning undecipherable syllables, giving them a foreboding sense of arcane ritual as the layers swim around gradually strengthening across the length of each track. But perhaps the greatest contrast between them are the tempos imposed by the grey synth pulses, from the slow and brooding opener, followed by the more complex rhythms of ‘Flash Dekomposition’, to the bludgeoning, car alarm-paced march of ‘Dekomposition III’, which, bereft of any other ingredients, is surely the most primitive piece of the set.

Consequently, ‘Musik for Dekomposition’ is largely an uneventful and unobtrusive work that acts like ambient music was originally conceived to – casting a mood on the environment without being too prominent in itself. And the mood conveyed strongly here feels dryer than decomposition, more suggestive of a cold, lifeless landscape rendered uninhabitable by all but machines whose carbon-based creators have long since decomposed. Although long since sold out on cassette, Musik for Dekomposition has recently been re-released on CD by Australia’s Fall of Nature Records ensuring its decaying disposition lives on."



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