Label: Cold Spring - CSR289CD

ボーナストラックを追加した拡張リイシュー版！！ネバダ州を拠点に動く人気女性作家Himukaltが、2018年に米Malignant Recordsより出版した今やレア物件となっているLPタイトル[Knife Through The Spine]が英Cold SpringよりCD化!!しかも全7トラックだったオリジナルに、同じレコーディングセッションからの9分のボーナス曲[The American Redhead]を追加、更にリマスター仕様での再発！！ザクザクと切り裂かれる強引でヘビーなボイスカットアップが、どこかプリミティブ且つオールドスクールな雑音と混じり合う素晴らしい音のバランス感覚。6パネルデジパック仕様。







Primitive, old school industrial, with an obsessive, post-mortem feel. This is the first CD edition of Himukalt’s cult 2018 LP (originally released on Malignant Records), remastered and including bonus material from the same recording sessions.

"There’s something uniquely old school and primitive at work here, capturing the claustrophobic, unsettled and fragmented sound of early Illusion of Safety or mid-late ‘80s industrial on a whole, contemporising it, and filling it in with an obsessive, post-mortem feel. Knife Through the Spine delivers a steady cascade of abstract sounds, festering with grinding pneumatic throb, coarse frequency blasts and sputtering electronic oscillations, with spliced snippets of processed, flanged vocals and a general sense of social anxiety and disaffection. A unique and challenging take on heavy electronics for fans of Puce Mary, She Spread Sorrow, Atrax Morgue".

Himukalt is the Nevada-based project of the enigmatic Ester Kärkkäinen. Presented in a 6-panel digipak.

"For her first vinyl album, Knife Through the Spine, [Himukalt] has fully embraced the early 1990s power electronic scene, creating a dark, disturbing, and at times extremely aggressive record that has a tighter, more specific focus in its sound" (Brainwashed)