We’re excited to announce the imminent release of “Crown on the head of a King of Mud”, the debut offering by California-based one-man noise metal/punk deformation Human Failure, a mangled and gnarled disfiguration of raw death metal, raw punk and harsh noise spewn from the outer limits of complete nihilism and inhumanity. The wretched offering will arrive in early May 2021 on 10” EP format via Sentient Ruin in collaboration with Caligari Records.
A taste of plague-riddled release has been provided by Antichrist Magazine who has offered an exclusive premiere of the opening track “Poison Ideals“ (check out the track and feature HERE), while Decibel Magazine unveiled the track “Your Hope Is a Noose”, explaining that “Human Failure’s debut full-length Crown on the Head of a King of Mud is just one explosion after the other as harsh-noise, hardcore punk and utterly detached death metal brawl for dominance“ - you can check out the track and feature HERE.
An antihuman display of total sonic barbarism, “Crown on the head of a King of Mud” unifies various schools of thought in the realm of raw, stripped down and purposely under-produced and stylistically regressed forms of audial anarchy. In its unforgiving and mindless quest for total filth and primeval animalistic violence, the release brings us back to early punk-derived releases from Napalm Death, Discharge, G.I.S.M., and (early) Carcass, and follows their natural evolution through the first wave of primitive death metal bands like Nihilist and Autopsy, only to then deliberately skip entire generations of musical progress to embrace instead the chaos and and disarray of contemporary noise and power electronics. The end result is something that while sounding timelessly feral and atavistic also comes with a compelling aura of modernity and experimentalism that places the project among one of the most interesting and still considerably unexplored extremisms of contemporary underground music: the hybridizations of extreme metal and electronic noise that seek new ways to blindside and annihilate the listener and which are shaping up to becoming the most violent and transformative fringes in the underground today.
The brainchild of prolific American solo artist D. Cornejo (also in the projects Hermit, Vual, Akasha, Sadisme, Nekrohex, Temple Ash, and Dekagram among others), Human Failure is artist’s reflection on the horrors and absurdities that permeate society, the abhorrent and failed construct of one of creation’s most contradictory and disturbing deformities: mankind. Constructed on a cesspool of total nihilism and abnegation, as its name aptly suggests, Human Failure rummages the depths of humanity’s most repulsive and harrowing traits to unearth the complete illogicality and absurdity of its existence and of the mindless suffering and degradation that it endlessly drags in its wake. For this reason the project has conjoined the three musical doctrines that in modern times most have been shaped by society and the most negative traits of the human condition: the politically charged antagonism and dissent of hardcore punk, the mindless escape from reality of death metal, and the spiteful abjection and misanthropy of harsh noise. These three primal ingredients have been whipped together by Cornejo into an inhuman and extremely deranged aural deformity of complete atavism and barbarity that in its spiraling descent into humanity’s darkest depths attempts to uncover the meaning and origin to all the suffering and pain that simply existing as a human among our peers harbors and carries with it
“Crown on the head of a King of Mud” will be officially released on May 7 2021 on 10” vinyl EP format and digital via Sentient Ruin in collaboration with Caligari Records, who will also issue ca cassette tape version.