American one-man nuclear black industrial weapon Uranium returns, transmuted into its most astonishing and terrifying form yet. A statement of unseen magnitude and scope, the second full length album "Pure Nuclear Death" sees the enigmatic East Coast visionary harness a realm of terror and death-torn sonic immensity rarely, if ever, seen before in this plane of reality.
The ghastly album has been teased by iconic underground metal blog Invisible Oranges, who in premiering the eight-minute closing track terroscape of “Black Knight Satellite”, have remarked how the track “wraps up the album with an especially torturous soundscape”, and how the song “creeps, crawls, and sometimes just seems to invade, blending pounding rhythm with hair-raising sound effects“ - you can check out the track and premiere HERE.
Clear from the title alone, "Pure Nuclear Death" embodies the triumph, definition and consecration of a vision and concept which in the span of a just a couple of years and releases so far has already become classic and by all standards and measures, simply unrivaled. Awe-inducing, imposing and inexorably devastating, "Pure Nuclear Death" comprises thirty six minutes, split up into five tracks, of omnipotent, death-heaving black industrial immensity designed to devour the listener and deliver to them a world-ending payload of absolute death. The legacy of bludgeoning, visionary post-industrial acts like Godflesh and early (Cop, Filth-era) SWANS transposed into total oblivion and coerced into a monstrous, lightless abyss of tectonic and crushing blackened electronics. An antihuman concept on nuclear energy and its most godly and terrifying traits incarnated in a sound which is its perfectly executed and envisioned embodiment. An indissolubile fusion reaction between a concept extrapolated from science, ethical literature and philosophy to convey realities of daunting scientific an technological darkness, and a god-like sound assembled from a critical mass of cataclysmic power electronics, apocalyptic industrial and black metal chained together into an otherworldly sonic weapon of absolute atomic death. "We knew the world would not be the same".
Inspired by the god-like ominous aura of nuclear energy, Uranium is the glorification of the great destroyer of civilizations, empires, and worlds. The atom which splits itself into the source of all creation and destruction. The decaying unravelling of molecules and DNA. The endless propagation of unstoppable death, deformities and destruction.
The project first emerged around 2020 as the solo endeavor of East Coast industrial artist AA with the debut full-length album “An Exacting Punishment” self released on Bandcamp digitally. This release was still heavily influenced by black metal with the industrial aspect more sublte compared to later releases. Meanwhile mastermind AA had already refined the project’s sound by shifting it more in the direction of power electronics and industrial noise and intended to showcase this evolution on the subsequent “Glorious Void” EP, also digitally self-released via Bandcamp. This faster than expected improvement in the band’s sound led AA and Sentient Ruin to take down the original “An Exacting Punishment”full-length, and have it remixed and remastered for a brand new release on vinyl which would better match and suit the band’s rapidly evolving black industrial sound. As a result, while waiting for the new version of the debut album to come out on vinyl, AA and Sentient Ruin bundled the “Glorious Void” EP with another brand new EP called “Wormboiler” into a cassette tape full length compilation, released with each EP on each side and eponymously titled “Wormboiler”. The “Wormboiler” cassette tape sold out instantly and was praised far and wide in the underground as a groundbreaking and transformative black industrial and power electronics release. Following over a year in delays caused by the COVID pandemic, finally the“An Exacting Punishment”full-length album was officially physically released worldwide in early 2023 in its restored/updated form, also gaining praise for its dismal industrial sound still heavily contaminated by the band’s early black metal influences. Meanwhile AA had been working away at his most deadly and magnificent work yet, the sophomore full-length album “Pure Nuclear Death”, and authentic weapon of mass extermination in sonic form, a majestic and annihilating work further refining the projects concept on nuclear annihilation and encompassing all of Uranium’s sounds and influences seen until that point, fusing both the crushing power electronics assault seen on “Wormboiler” and the black metal influences seen on “An Exacting Punishment”, while adding even more newly introduced elements to the plate, like the crushing force of experimental and no-wave bands like Swans, black/death metal in the vein of Teitanblood and Tetragrammacide, and even more oppressive and overbearing industrial load derived from the legend of bands like Godflesh, Brighter Death Now, and Scorn. This is its shadow, this is its void, this is URANIUM - American-made atom-glorifying weapon of total aural annihilation.