THEOLOGIAN Dregs [CDR]

Released in the very final days of 2015, Dregs is one of a plethora of new albums of auditory cruelty from New York City-area dark ambient/industrial act, THEOLOGIAN. Planned as a twenty-minute EP and monstrously evolving from its earliest incarnations, Dregs took on an entirely new aspect in recent weeks, the final product yielding more than an hour and ten minutes of material. Countless nocturnal recording expeditions and marathon mixing sessions have resulted in some of THEOLOGIAN’s most demoralizing material in years, with wells of harsh industrial chaos merging with rapturous end-time melodicism. Layers of electronically-generated chaos, devastating percussive attacks, low-end bass madness, multidimensional synth contributions, and multiple vocal styles were incorporated into eight new compositions. Constructed by architect Lee Bartow (a.k.a. Theologian Prime), in league with core collaborators Daniel Suffering (Whorid, Slavernij) and Dave Brenner (Militia Men, Heidnik, and The Easplit Compound), Dregs is infused with otherworldly vocal contributions from Gretchen Heinel, Faith Ciavarella, and additional percussive elements by BJ Allen (Full Scale Riot). Available in a CDR format presented in a DVD-style booklet, accompanied by several lyric/art inserts, Dregs is out on THEOLOGIAN’s own Annihilvs Power Electronix imprint. [Annihilvs Power Electronics]