"CONTAGION", a track from the bands anticipated debut release
"CONTAGION OF DESPAIR", due to be unleashed 9/21/2020 via
SVART RECORDS.
FROM SELF HYPNOSIS:
After many months of secrecy, we are happy to announce the existence of Self Hypnosis. The band is a collaboration of Kris Clayton (Camel of Doom/Esoteric), Greg Chandler (Esoteric/Lychgate) and Tom Vallely (Lychgate/Macabre Omen/Omega Centuri).
Our debut album 'Contagion of Despair' will be released on 21st August 2020 by Svart Records. The first track from the record, 'Contagion' can be listened to in its entirety here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2myYwRMULA
Surprisingly, ‘Contagion’ is not a response to the current COVID-19 crisis, having been written in mid 2018, but rather a case of observation that has become accidental prescience. The song serves as an introduction to the themes found throughout ‘Contagion of Despair’, a hate letter to the ever increasing tendency for the media to no longer be a source of information, choosing profiteering over accuracy with ever more sensationalist stories coming from all angles at all times. Ironically, as a real contagion spreads throughout the world, once again the press ensure at all times that they create an atmosphere of fear and misery. The album as a whole examines various aspects of the constant war on happiness, divisive tactics and general narrative of despair that is now endemic in our society. Who benefits from this situation? Who thrives on human misery?
Recorded at Priory Recording Studios
FROM SVART RECORDS:
Svart Records are proud to release the new single from extreme progressive Doom metal band Self Hypnosis Though Self Hypnosis are a new band, aficionados of the British Extreme Doom scene should need little introduction to the band members themselves. The project has its roots in Kris Clayton's long-standing, often-solo, Camel Of Doom outfit, which itself evolved from basic Stoner beginnings towards a much more avant-garde proposal, culminating with the release of fourth full-length album Terrestrial through renowned Russian label Solitude Productions in 2016. Following that, Kris began work on composing the next Camel Of Doom album, but quickly realized that the material was becoming even more experimental and eclectic than previous outings: so much so that it would be more appropriate to record it under a different name, making it clear that there should be no preconception, or historical expectation, attached to it. Needing a partner to bring the concept to fruition, Kris approached Greg Chandler, whose long-established reputation for recording and production engineering - and, of course, musicianship, co-founder of legendary UK extreme Doom pioneers Esoteric, as well - really does need no elaboration. Greg's name has appeared as a guest vocalist, guitarist and sometime keyboard player on many a release over the years, but this was intended to be a fully collaborative association from the outset, as well as a reuniting of old accomplices - Kris was one of the guitarists in Esoteric's line-up from 2007-2009, rejoining in August 2019. Completing the line-up for the recording sessions was drummer Tom Vallely, though as a guest/session performer rather than as a full band member. As a professional musician, veteran performer with bands such as Sanctus Nex and Lychgate, and having handled the drums on Terrestrial, Tom was already known to both Kris and Greg and the obvious choice to engage for this project as 'lead drummer'. The result of their combined endeavours is the full-length album Contagion Of Despair, which was recorded at Greg's Priory Studios using a variety of innovative techniques, including wiring up the whole building to create spacious, expansive recording spaces, or digitising live drums to drag an '80s Hip-Hop sub-bass groove into the mix. Self Hypnosis set out to use all of these techniques, and more, to create a completely unique mix of Doom and non-Doom influences that would nonetheless converge towards a genuinely Prog-Doom result, and with Contagion Of Despair, they've managed that to perfection. Including everything from Kris and Greg's anti-system and alternative roots through to more contemporary experimental/noise influences, the album touches base with a myriad different musical themes.
VIDEO BELOW: SELF HYPNOSIS: "CONTAGION" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF SVART RECORDS):
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/. -l-
Our debut album 'Contagion of Despair' will be released on 21st August 2020 by Svart Records. The first track from the record, 'Contagion' can be listened to in its entirety here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2myYwRMULA
Surprisingly, ‘Contagion’ is not a response to the current COVID-19 crisis, having been written in mid 2018, but rather a case of observation that has become accidental prescience. The song serves as an introduction to the themes found throughout ‘Contagion of Despair’, a hate letter to the ever increasing tendency for the media to no longer be a source of information, choosing profiteering over accuracy with ever more sensationalist stories coming from all angles at all times. Ironically, as a real contagion spreads throughout the world, once again the press ensure at all times that they create an atmosphere of fear and misery. The album as a whole examines various aspects of the constant war on happiness, divisive tactics and general narrative of despair that is now endemic in our society. Who benefits from this situation? Who thrives on human misery?
Recorded at Priory Recording Studios
FROM SVART RECORDS:
Svart Records are proud to release the new single from extreme progressive Doom metal band Self Hypnosis Though Self Hypnosis are a new band, aficionados of the British Extreme Doom scene should need little introduction to the band members themselves. The project has its roots in Kris Clayton's long-standing, often-solo, Camel Of Doom outfit, which itself evolved from basic Stoner beginnings towards a much more avant-garde proposal, culminating with the release of fourth full-length album Terrestrial through renowned Russian label Solitude Productions in 2016. Following that, Kris began work on composing the next Camel Of Doom album, but quickly realized that the material was becoming even more experimental and eclectic than previous outings: so much so that it would be more appropriate to record it under a different name, making it clear that there should be no preconception, or historical expectation, attached to it. Needing a partner to bring the concept to fruition, Kris approached Greg Chandler, whose long-established reputation for recording and production engineering - and, of course, musicianship, co-founder of legendary UK extreme Doom pioneers Esoteric, as well - really does need no elaboration. Greg's name has appeared as a guest vocalist, guitarist and sometime keyboard player on many a release over the years, but this was intended to be a fully collaborative association from the outset, as well as a reuniting of old accomplices - Kris was one of the guitarists in Esoteric's line-up from 2007-2009, rejoining in August 2019. Completing the line-up for the recording sessions was drummer Tom Vallely, though as a guest/session performer rather than as a full band member. As a professional musician, veteran performer with bands such as Sanctus Nex and Lychgate, and having handled the drums on Terrestrial, Tom was already known to both Kris and Greg and the obvious choice to engage for this project as 'lead drummer'. The result of their combined endeavours is the full-length album Contagion Of Despair, which was recorded at Greg's Priory Studios using a variety of innovative techniques, including wiring up the whole building to create spacious, expansive recording spaces, or digitising live drums to drag an '80s Hip-Hop sub-bass groove into the mix. Self Hypnosis set out to use all of these techniques, and more, to create a completely unique mix of Doom and non-Doom influences that would nonetheless converge towards a genuinely Prog-Doom result, and with Contagion Of Despair, they've managed that to perfection. Including everything from Kris and Greg's anti-system and alternative roots through to more contemporary experimental/noise influences, the album touches base with a myriad different musical themes.
VIDEO BELOW: SELF HYPNOSIS: "CONTAGION" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF SVART RECORDS):
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/. -l-
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