URANIUM
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.