Pain Of The Saints, by Theologian

Pain Of The Saints

by Theologian

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iamspoonbender I love Theologian, and everything he does under this moniker. Industrial madness like none other ! Favorite track: Piss And Jism.

albinobone Monolithic, noisy, inhuman mechanisms churning around trying to destroy you, but they can't quite do it, can they. The more they destroy, the more your survival irks them, and the more you in your sweaty, farty human survival madden the cold brutal machine. By attempting to destroy you, Theologian brings out that in you which is most essentially human. Music that doesn't make you sing along while doing other things. Similar to Jesu, but less pretty. Favorite track: Piss And Jism.

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	1.	Savages 13:09
	2.	Infection 08:11
	3.	Serpentine Angels 06:22
	4.	Piss And Jism 08:53
	5.	Gravity 09:34
	6.	Without Trust, Your Love Is Meaningless 06:41
	7.	Of Foulness And Faithfulness 04:50
	8.	Iron Pierces Flesh And Bone Alike 03:45
	9.	You Are The End Of The World 09:07
	10.	Sainthood Is Suffering 07:31
	11.	The Lies Of The Past Become The Prayers Of The Future 06:23
	12.	Suppuration 09:49
	13.	Witchfinder 05:14
	14.	Their Gelded And Rapacious Hearts 10:17
	15.	Deprivation 04:45
	16.	Blessed Prey 11:02
	17.	With Eternal Derision 04:12
	18.	Redemption Is An Impossibility 06:06
	19.	It Was You Who Taught Me Indifference 09:38
	20.	Self-Flagellation As Faith 11:22

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5 years have passed since Navicon Torture Technologies' 2009 masterpiece finale, The Gospels of the Gash, and the last time Lee Bartow recording something specifically for release on Malignant, so it is with great honor and pride that he is welcomed back into the fold. During this span, primary releases on Crucial Blast and Handmade Birds have established and solidified his "new" project, Theologian, as a consistent and fruitful source for epically scaled and sprawling industrial soundscapes, and the 2CD set Pain of the Saints continues that trend, laying forth a dizzying 2 ½ + hours of music. Once again, Bartow has sculpted an impeccable and highly detailed excursion into tortured yet brilliant realms, where contrails of burning frequencies and blackened atmospheres intersect with densely concentrated rhythmic pulsations, ethereal, blissed-out shimmer, and the majestic monoliths of smoldering, post-apocalyptic desolation. There's a lot to absorb here, but the focus is precise even as the palate of sounds is broad and varied, a true testament to the deft skills of someone who's spent the last 15 plus years creating some of the most inventive and revolutionary sounds in modern industrial music.

Largely produced in collaboration with Fade Kainer (STATIQBLOOM, BATILLUS), and featuring the core trio of Lee M. Bartow, Matt Slagle, and Kainer, Pain of the Saints also includes contributions from David Castillo (PRIMITIVE WEAPONS/WHITE WIDOWS PACT), Joan Hacker (FACTORIA/HEROINE), Christiana Key (DELPHIC ORACLE), Matthew Melnick (DARKSIDE NYC/ex-DISASSOCIATE), Eric Morgan (A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH), Jessica Way (WORM OUROBOROS/BARREN HARVEST), and more.

Lyrically and thematically it represents Bartow's rallying cry against Christianity and more specifically Catholicism — an "Anti-Theist manifesto" — and sonic diatribe exposing hypocrisy within the church and a broader questioning of what sainthood means. In his own words, "...in many cases, it seems almost like a prerequisite for Sainthood is to suffer at the hands of the Church. It was common to imprison, torture, execute anyone with ideas that ran contrary to what the Church dictated, to brand them as a heretic or a witch, or an apostate, and then end their lives using some of the most brutal methods humans have ever conceived. Then, the ultimate hypocrisy: to turn around and dub these victims of the Church as saints, centuries after having murdered them."

In luxurious 8 panel DVD Digipak with stunning artwork, mastered by John Stillings.

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released January 7, 2015

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