American nuclear black industrial weapon Uranium returns to embody industrial music’s most terrifying triumph. In its life-entombing thirty six minutes “Corrosion of Existence” takes the mysterious one man band’s concept of nuclear devastation to its most harrowing and inevitable conclusions, unfolding five new monstrous tracks of plutonium-fueled auditory terror that will dominate tyrannical above and beyond anything that the most lawless frontier of extreme industrial has ever fathomed or imagined.
The immense album has been teased by reliable German experimental/extreme music blog Veil of Sound, who in premiering the song “Descent Into Entropic Death” have asked themselves "could this be one of the best records ever released via Sentient Ruin? Answer: yes”, and further elaborating “imagine Merzbow had mated with Gnaw their Tongues and are being midwifed by Teitanblood and Escotrilihum - then you get an idea of how utterly disastrous and gloriously mindblowing Uranium is!” - you can check out their feature and listen to the track HERE.
An immense industrial and blackened noise construct inspired by acts like Godflesh, Swans, Brighter Death Now, Gnaw Their Tongues, and Merzbow levitates out of a world-ending idealization, colliding with excoriations of techno and breakcore as well as with black/death metal influences from bands like Teitanblood, Portal and Irkallian Oracle into an unimaginable cauldron of destruction. Like an unstoppable chain reaction that has evaded any containment, “Corrosion of Existence” exponentially escalates the destructive yield of its black/death metal-inspired 2023 predecessor album “Pure Nuclear Death”, transmuting its never-before-heard sonic assault into Uranium’s most oppressive and inescapable conquest. A gigantic gaping void is blown out into the architecture of existence, revealing a massive radioactive wound seared with layer upon layer upon layer of caustic sequences and smoldering synth tapestries. A downpour of robotic samples pounds like radioactive rain falling from a nuclear maelstrom, engulfing the biosphere and sending a gigantic swath of fallout to travel horizonless, burying everything in a suffocating sarcophagus of molten corium and melted concrete. Torrents of gnarled, sampled guitars and bass compound the destruction, while the album's tectonic drum racks push its cataclysmic yield into world-ending upheaval, as a roaring vault of coiling death grunts and apocalyptic proclamations invoke a god-like idealization of death itself. Every composite element of existence from single nucleuses, to atoms, to organic molecules and compounds like cells and DNA, all the way to planet-sized ecosystems are destroyed and vaporized in an onslaught of ionizing death radiating from Uranium’s all-devouring pandemonium.
“Corrosion of Existence” is scheduled for a November 7 2025 on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all pre-orderable now via all our channels
Inspired by the god-like ominous aura of nuclear energy, Uranium 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”, an authentic sonic weapon of mass extermination. 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, while adding even more newly introduced black/death metal elements to the plate. Being the project a studio-only endeavor, further silence followed, but it was just meant to be another calm before an even greater storm, as AA silently but diligently worked on a “Pure Nuclear Death” followup. The followup will finally materialize in early November as “Corrosion of Existence” , a brand new full-length abomination that will once again shatter boundaries and reveal Uranium as a crown jewel of American extreme industrial and extreme music in general.