{"title":"The Body","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-body-i-shall-die-here-haxan-cloak","title":"The Body - I Shall Die Here","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCAT#: RVNGNL25\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease Date: April 1, 2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf your order contains a pre-order record, it will be held and shipped complete when pre-order stock arrives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Shall Die Here\u003c\/em\u003e is the fourth full-length album by \u003cb\u003eThe Body\u003c\/b\u003e. Sharing their moribund vision for \u003cem\u003eI Shall Die Here\u003c\/em\u003e with \u003cb\u003eBobby Krlic\u003c\/b\u003e (aka \u003cb\u003eThe Haxan Cloak\u003c\/b\u003e), the tried and true sound of The Body is cut to pieces, mutilated by process and re-animated in a spectral state by the newly minted partnership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Body's brutal musical approach, engraved by drummer \u003cb\u003eLee Buford's\u003c\/b\u003e colossal beats and \u003cb\u003eChip King's\u003c\/b\u003e mad howl and bass-bladed guitar dirge, becomes something even more terrifying with Krlic's post-mortem ambiences serving as both baseline and outer limit. \u003cem\u003eI Shall Die Here\u003c\/em\u003e sonically serrates the remains of metal's already unidentifiable corpse and splays it amid tormented voices in shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormed in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1999, The Body soon relocated to Providence, Rhode Island. The duo remained in Providence for a decade before moving west to their current home of Portland, Oregon. A handful of precursor releases readied the band for seasoned explorations across their debut self-titled album (Moganano, 2003) and on the widely-acclaimed \u003cem\u003eAll the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood\u003c\/em\u003e (At A Loss, 2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Body's curtailing of formal classification figured heavily on \u003cem\u003eAll the Waters\u003c\/em\u003e. The album’s employment of the \u003cb\u003eAssembly of Light Choir's\u003c\/b\u003e classical chorales alongside more industrial music techniques such as vocal sampling and drum programming in turn prompted RVNG to inquire with King and Buford which darker corners of the electronic universe they were presumably interested in exploring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe earnestly experimental undertaking of \u003cem\u003eI Shall Die Here\u003c\/em\u003e is expertly aided by \u003cb\u003eSeth Manchester\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eKeith Souza\u003c\/b\u003e, The Body's longstanding engineers and creative collaborators, and noted producer Krlic. Krlic's own work as The Haxan Cloak struck a similarly despairing chord to The Body with last year’s celebrated \u003cem\u003eExcavation\u003c\/em\u003e (Tri Angle, 2013), itself a minimalist evocation of the afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI Shall Die Here\u003c\/em\u003e shares similar nether space with the morbidly deviating darkness of \u003ci\u003eExcavation\u003c\/i\u003e, but remains sculpturally frozen in a sort of earthen purgatory. On album opener \"To Carry the Seeds of Death Within Me\", a dramatic pause partitions the seismic caterwauling and savage whump of the first half from the ambient, suffocating ripple of the second. From there, the dimensional doom marches on in procession, ceaselessly alternating between shape and shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Alone All the Way\" is an iconic take from \u003cem\u003eI Shall Die Here\u003c\/em\u003e. An anonymous, distorted voice ruminates on the moral dilemma of suicide, (to paraphrase: escape from suffering, perhaps, but only by unleashing it on those close), before an oscillating snare \/ crash pattern enters stage augmented by overdriven guitar and fully throttled rage. Dispatches of electronic color complexly fill in the gaps before Buford's beat transitions into a tribal, Burundi-esque rumble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKing's strychnine scream serves less as a lyrical conduit and more as a caustic, flammable element to the overall fabric on \"The Night Knows No Dawn\", the harsh, droning midpoint of the album. \"Hail to Thee, Everlasting Pain\" follows, wherein the album's earlier unbridled bleakness is reignited by guest vocalist \u003cb\u003eBen Eberle\u003c\/b\u003e and then tweaked in a masterful combination of pounding doom and techno drum patterns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNine-minute closer \"Darkness Surrounds Us\" sends off \u003cem\u003eI Shall Die Here\u003c\/em\u003e with the prophetic event horizon. A metered stanza of spoken lines booms in hollow space, introducing a passage of thin, searing textures of strings and mutating bass rhythms. Where Buford's drums are triggered, they pose the final stages of the album's bitter resolve. The guitar, so indistinguishable here from over-gained bass, proceeds with King's vocal into inevitable oblivion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to the band themselves, they sought to create something wholly experimental with I Shall Die Here. In the course of its creation and recreation, they have attained that rare artistic goal: an album with few precedents and a paradigm shift richly realized. Bobby Krlic's downcast electronic visions laces seamlessly into The Body’s already volatile mix of fissured doom metal and fused verbal spaces. 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