Iugula-Thor

condition (disc/cover): NM / NM

The debut full-length and the hinge between two Iugula-Thor identities. After the 1992 12" EP The Wheel Of The Process had established the project as a Sigillum S-adjacent power-electronics outfit, Forced Flesh (recorded at Hyperes Audio-Visual Labs between winter 1991 and summer 1992) pulls the sound decisively toward guitar-based death-metal machine music without abandoning the industrial grammar.

Personnel: Andrea Chiaravalli (the constant), Andrea Cernotto, Eraldo Bernocchi, and Paolo Bandera. Eleven tracks that move between "Love Archangel," "The Duke Of Excitement," the Vermont-conceived "Melancholy Of Bethel And Its Sanatorium" (sketched in Bethel, Vermont, summer 1991), "V.P. Death (Burnt Version)," "N.A.M.," "Putrefaccao (Lost Bodies)," "Bag Of Corpses," "Razors Judgement," and the title closer. The label's own copy pitched the record as "metal/death-oid riff-o-rama from power distorsion... the full-length explosion of the early PROCESS," pictures of body annihilation through training and destruction.

Iugula-Thor was among the very first Italian industrial projects to sample thrash and death-metal riffs into a power-electronics context, which makes Forced Flesh an important historical object regardless of how you feel about the cross-breeding itself. Cover art from a collaboration between Chiaravalli and performance artist Milo Sacchi. A Hyperes Production, released on Minus Habens in 1993, catalogue MHCD011.