Harald Grosskopf
Synthesist / Re-Synthesist (LP)
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Probably our favourite release on RVNG Intl comes from metal duo Lee Buford and Chip King aka The Body produced by Bobby Krlic aka The Haxan Cloak for their crushing 4th album, 'I Shall Die Here'. Abetted by Krlic's visceral production, The Body sound more fearsome and physical than ever before, shaping a series of tracks which only seem to get more intense and nightmarish as the trip takes hold. From the funereal trudge of opener 'To Carry the Seeds of Death Within Me' we pass through successive stages revealed like some hemlock-induced hallucination, from the eschatological resignation of 'Alone All The Way' and the garrotting strings of 'The Night Knows No Dawn' to the vocal catharsis and technoid intensity of 'Hail To Thee, Everlasting Pain' and the cinematic torture porn soundtrack gloom of 'Darkness Surrounds Us'. Great stuff - RIYL Pharmakon, Prurient, Godflesh, The Haxan Cloak.
Format
Includes Download Code.
Release notes
LP + CD in Card Sleeve. Synthesist originally released on Sky Records, 1980. Basic tracks recorded late 1979 at Udo Handen's flat. Additional recording & mixing at Panne & Paulsen Studios, Frankfurt, Germany. Remastered at The Exchange.
| Synthesist | |||
| LP-A1 | So Weit, So Gut | ||
| LP-A2 | B. Aldrian | ||
| LP-A3 | Emphasis | ||
| LP-A4 | Synthesist | ||
| LP-B1 | 1847- Earth | ||
| LP-B2 | Trauma | ||
| LP-B3 | Transcendental Overdrive | ||
| LP-B4 | Tai Ki | ||
| Re-Synthesist | |||
| CD-1 | So Weit, So Gut | 5:07 | |
| CD-2 | B. Aldrian | 4:56 | |
| CD-3 | B. Aldrian | 3:36 | |
| CD-4 | Emphasis | 7:47 | |
| CD-5 | Emphasize | 5:18 | |
| CD-6 | Synthesist | 6:03 | |
| CD-7 | Synthesist | 6:46 | |
| CD-8 | 1847 - Earth | 5:03 | |
| CD-9 | Trauma 2010 | 3:30 | |
| CD-10 | WISHMASTER (Transcendental Overdrive Zone) | 7:35 | |
| CD-11 | Tai Ki | 6:21 | |
- Kevin O'Neill
- Art Direction
- Siegfried Kottler
- Artwork By [Original Artwork]
- Harald Grosskopf
- Composed By, Arranged By, Performer, Producer, Liner Notes (A1 to B4), Recorded By (A1 to B4)
- Mike Burns
- Other [Liner Notes Translation]
- Udo Hanten
- Performer [Space Sounds Performed By] (A1 to B4)
- Detlef Kottler
- Photography
- Eberhard Panne
- Recorded By (A1 to B4)
- Graeme Durham
- Remastered By (A1 to B4)
