condition (record/cover): NM / NM (seal is cut)

Folded poster-cover in plastic bag with sealing sticker.

Cranioclast, along with Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Gerechtgkeits Liga, HNAS (Hirsche Nicht Aus Sofa), Asmus Tietchens, P16.D4, Die Tödliche Doris, and many others, best represent the crumbling scene that later took the name NDPA (Neue Deutsche Post Avantgarde); a Teutonic music scene that even ended up lending its title to a famous compilation album of the time. Nothing, or almost nothing, is known about the two members, not even their personal details. Everything is shrouded in mystery. An aura of enigma surrounds them, suffice it to say that almost all their works, as well as the names of our two artists (Sankt Klario and Soltan Karik), are anagrams of the words Cranioclast and Kranioklast, the latter being none other than the name used for their first albums. Lost In Karak is music that burns, and seems to come straight from the blast furnace. A crucible of incandescent splashes of molten iron from wire drawing alternates with the dark, latent drones of early-century industrial steelworks. Veiled ritual-industrial chimes are as disturbing as a first viewing of F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu." Lost In Karak, however, feels static: it's as if the steel had been subjected to what is technically called stress-relieving heat treatment.