COLON OUT hot but enough to where it’s got some bite. It goes good with Chicken I’ve found and works well just putting straight on chip. We deliberately made it black because hey, it’s goth industrial! ‘Mercenary Notes Pt 1’ is the forthcoming full-length album.This is a concept album infact, right? What’s the central theme? I don’t really think of it as a concept album in the traditional sense.There’s no storyline persay. But there’s definitely a central theme to it. It’s about how technology, media and the overwhelming amount of information humans process is impacting us and what we need to do to survive with our sanity in tact. So the tracks all kind of revolve around that idea in different ways. Like "Year Hope Failed" is about how technology is replacing livelihoods and how machines do a lot of things better than humans do and if your’e going to survive,you need to adapt and be agile. But then "Slaves Rebuild" is sort of about how media overstimulationparticularly in with young women (as the father of a daughter this is important to me) - can create this sense of inferiority. Then as I mentioned with "Bastards" of the world,we’re all dialed into systems that are the greatest arbiters of intent in all of human history and their sole mission is to sell you another fucking nissan. How did you personal experience in advertising play into the theme of‘Mercenary Notes’? Its’really shaped how I look at big tech and the web. I’ve been doing search engine optimization since before there was a Google. I was there in the first dot com bubble, and I watched platforms rise and fall.We’re at a time now where the world is a fundamentally different place than it was 20 years ago. My kids don’t know a world without the internet. But in that ad business, I was in the war room for presidential campaigns, superbowl campaigns and programs that seize on a movement in the cultural zeitgeist like me too or Black Lives Matter. I know what resources were behind certain stories getting pushed and others suppressed.There’s a sample in Year Hope Failed where James Whittaker - who was a head engineer at Microsoft is saying that the web is fundamentally flawed because he discoverability mechanism is what the advertiser wants you to see. There’s a lot of truth in that. I know because I was there as the whole thing took shape. So I’m acutely aware of how much of a role digital media plays in people’s lives and what the good and evil lies therein. So the experiences of looking at data and deciding what messages to push and what to draft on really influenced what I talk about on Mercenary Notes. - 13 - You’ll also have some special guests on the upcoming album including Justin Broadrick of Godflesh.Who else do you have participating? Justin was awesome to work with! I love the mix he did of Slaves Rebuild. It’s like from the depth of hell! He took what was already a dark track and made it really dark. Sean is a huge Godflesh fan so that was pretty cool to get Justin on board. But beyond that as I mentioned, Martin Atkins also did a killer remix of Deaf Blood and he used live drums. That part is really cool to me because those are THE drums he did those PIL albums with as well as all the NIN, Ministry and Pigface stuff. He has them setup as his museum in Chicago and he’ll let you sit behind them. But just knowing THOSE drums are on that mix is a really cool music nerd thing for me. As you mention Reeves Gabrels plays guitar on some tracks, Chris Connelly did vocals for Deaf Blood and then on the Deaf Blood Single, Dan Milligan from The Joy Thieves does a really cool chill remix of Deaf Blood. He did a mix on the Sys Machine album last year and that was amazing. What’s next for Derision Cult beyond‘Mercenary Notes Pt. 1”? Do you have a vision for Pt.2? We started out with 8 tracks and Mercenary Notes Pt 1 has 5 of the those. We wrote Mercenary over the summer. The other 3 are in various states and we’re going to do two more. It’s two parts because they’re all part of the same theme.We leaned in on these because they were the ones that felt like they were moving the fastest, not necessarily because they’re good and the others are shit! In fact there’s a track on the next one called "Abdication Day" that I’m really excited about.We have some mystery guests we’re working on for part 2 that I don’t want to jinx myself on. But if they come together, it’ll be amazing. Visually it’ll need to continue Jim’s vision so I’m sure he’ll beinvolved in that one too. If you were arrested for a certain crime, what crime would it be which made all your friends know it was you? Streaking and getting busted at a gas station after I asked if the hapless attendant was Sarah Connor William ZIMMERMAN https://derisioncult.bandcamp.com/ www.facebook.com/300southdungeon/ www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be
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