8 HOUR ANIMAL
Influenced by bands like Controlled Bleeding, Carcass, Godflesh, Ministry, Incapacitants, Coil, and Skinny Puppy, 8 Hour Animal is the sound of fear and loss of self as flesh is dragged across broken glass. The enigmatic and mysterious one-man blackened harsh industrial entity emerged from the East coast in 2020 via a string of extremely limited home-dubbed tapes focused on abstract pummeling harsh noise wall and power electronics, but brand new sophomore album "Resigner" (arriving in 2021 via Sentient Ruin) brings new focus and definition to the project, adding a whole new arsenal of tangible and iconic horrors to its hideous framework, as elements of classic industrial and metal make their way into band's sound taking it to a new realm of urgency and destructiveness. Written in complete loneliness and isolation "Resigner" fuses heavy grinding guitars with industrial percussion, caustic atmospherics, and walls of hateful hissing noise to paint a daunting modern design to complete self-annihilation. The lyrics dealing in self harm, despair, fear and deep self-hatred further define the self-projected sonic downfall that aims at representing the end of self, the quitting of life, the erasure of future, and the complete suppression of hope and happiness. "Resigner" is a harsh industrial weapon for complete self-eradication.