The new album from Nader Sadek features Members of Morbid Angel, Sunn O))), Krallice, Cattle Decapitation and More and is available now on Season of the Mist Records. (Season of the Mist has a horribly bad Web site)
Stream "In The Flesh" exclusively @ DecibelMagazine.com!
* Nader Sadek speaks w/ The Village Voice's Sound of the City Blog, read the interview here! ("Q&A: Nader Sadek On Wearing Deicide T-Shirts In Cairo And Humanity's Oil-Fueled Pursuit Of Its Own Destruction")
Egyptian-born, New York-based conceptual artist Nader Sadek is well-known in the metal world for his impressively twisted sculptures, masks, and installations. He has created visual landscapes that have greatly enhanced the overall performance of bands such as Mayhem and SUNN O))). Sadek is now venturing into the recorded music realm with his first album, In the Flesh. A collaboration between Sadek and some of extreme music’s most talented artists, In the Flesh stands to be one of this year’s hallmark metal albums. The album features a core band consisting of none other than Steve Tucker (vocals), Flo Mounier (drums), and Rune Eriksen (guitars). The massive album also features guest appearances by Attila Csihar (Mayhem, Sunn O))), Travis Ryan (Cattle Decapitation), Tony Norman (Monstrosity, Terrorizer), Mike Lerner (Behold... The Arctopus), Descructhor (Morbid Angel), and Nick McMaster (Krallice).
In the Flesh centers on the notion of humanity’s relationship with petroleum and how this exhumation of ancient life forms serves as a self-destructive fuel to society’s greed. The album was recorded in New York, produced by Sadek, and co-produced and mixed by Tucker.
"In The Flesh" Album Concept
Nader Sadek invites you on a journey to the depths of the earth, where substances of a repulsive nature dwell. Beneath the earth’s crust, over millions of years creatures have disintegrated and decayed until taking on ghastly new life as petroleum. Like a return of the undead, petroleum and its derivates have wrought cross-cultural conflict, environmental pollution, and economic distress. With a visual and aural assault, Sadek's new work "In The Flesh" re-interprets petroleum's sinister insinuation into our everyday lives. Nine songs and a series of original drawings video works explore several aspects of the commodified resource we find ourselves fatally dependent on.
"In the Flesh" exploits the sonic links between death metal and gasoline-dependent heavy machinery such as automobile and airplane engines. These links shaped the process of musical composition itself: The album opener, "Petrophilia", kicks in with a sound evoking an engine starting up. Another song, "Of This Flesh (novus deus)", follows the sonic structure of a car shifting gears. While continuing to link musical composition to mechanical transformations, other songs depart from engine-based references. The outro to the album, "Nigredo in Necromance" which is already accompanied by a video, dwells on an individual’s recognition that he must die in order to reunite with his deceased lover. The song riffs on the life-in-death of an oil-drenched society, as the lovers’ reunite in their decomposition and rebirth as petroleum. This theme also drives the track "Mechanic Idolatry", which channels the uncanny thrust of Sadek’s recent artistic output, as live human beings provide the fuel for machines transforming themselves into flesh.
* "Petrofilia" was written by Rune Eriksen and Nader Sadek, lyrics by Steve Tucker, "In The Flesh" was written by Tucker, Erisksen and Sadek.
Sadek will be premiering videos for each new song on "In The Flesh," beginning w/ "Nigredo in Necromance" available here.
Stream "In The Flesh" here!
"In The Flesh" Track List
1. Awakening
2. Petrophilia
3. Of this Flesh (Novus Deus)
4. Exhaust Capacitor
5. Soulless
6. Rusted Skin
7. Mechanic Idolatry
8. Sulffer
9. Nigredo in Necromance - watch the video here.
For more information, visit:
www.nadersadek.com
www.season-of-mist.com
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