Drone Records

KHOST - Buried Steel

Format: CD

Label & Cat.Number: Cold Spring CSR278CD

Release Year: 2020

Note: brutal, mighty doom industrial noise with Zombie vocals by the duo of ANDY SWAN (FINAL, IROHA) and DAMIAN BENNET (TECHNO ANIMAL, CARTHAGE), who managed to collaborate with diverse guest musicians four this, their fourth album: STEPHEN MALLINDER (CABARET VOLTAIRE), STEPHEN BURROUGHS (HEAD OF DAVID, TUNNELS OF AH), and members of 16-17 and OXBOW; enough namedropping, this apocalyptic machine mind crusher has to be experienced!!

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The brand new album Birmingham industrial doom metal duo Andy Swan (FINAL, IROHA) & Damian Bennett (TECHNO ANIMAL, CARTHAGE), feat Stephen Mallinder (CABARET VOLTAIRE, WRANGLER), Eugene Robinson (OXBOW) and more… ‘Buried Steel’ is the fourth album from KHOST, following the 2017 release ‘Governance’.

Themes and sonics of ‘Buried Steel’ range from granite and impassive to dreamlike and somnambulistic, in keeping with the promise – and threat – of the title, dwelling on slow, infallible ruination: a gravitational downthrust upon misshapen monuments and structures which are mangled, overgrown and increasingly forgotten. A monochrome landscape where nature reclaims and redefines us as time passes.

Recording of the album was marred with events such as an electrical fire which damaged some equipment. As a result, a number of tracks on the album had to be pieced together from damaged analogue elements such as reel to reel (Khost reel to reel RIP). From this point, the dynamic of some of the songs was altered, shifting their eventual outcome, particularly the tone of ambient work on Buried Steel.

Further guests on ‘Buried Steel’ include Syan, Manuel Liebeskind, Daniel Buess (16-17, MIR) and Stephen Ah Burroughs (TUNNELS OF AH, ex-HEAD OF DAVID).

CD in 6-panel digipak with artwork contributions from Talitha Bell, Syan and Craig Earp.

Videos:

Blood Gutters 6x4x1 - youtu.be/DbdxwVyaHYg
Night Air - youtu.be/32CXTKOIc3M

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/buried-steel-csr278cd