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Man Is Wolf To Man

by Bolt Gun

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Alice M. “a sonic, cinematic epic that depicts the existential horror of Stalinist Russia”
This is a 2017 record, and by sheer chance I ran into it not too long after seeing a recent movie about Gareth Jones and the Soviet famine.
A two-part epic with ambient elements, a strange “ISIS+Thou” feeling, tons of details, and occasional manic screams that wouldn’t sound out of place in a The Body record.
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chrundle A musical journey I revisit often.
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XUL//EXCELSI Deur lank genoeg te wag, kan die gewig wat te voorskyn kom sy volle omvang bereik. Speel met sy eie tydskaal.

Titanies. Planetêre momentum.

Deel 1 is Solzhenitsyn se lang skreeu, maar deel 2 laat mens asem skep deur die lentegeur wat kom as natuur haar gebied terugeis.

Vind prag in die betekenislose dinge wat die mens aan homself doen.

Die Bolt Gun is aan my hande vasgesweis. Ek en die Bolt Gun gaan mekaar intiem leer ken in die maande van isolasie wat voorlê. --LD Favorite track: Man Is Wolf To Man (Part 2).
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With their new album, ‘Man Is Wolf To Man’, Bolt Gun have created a sonic, cinematic epic that depicts the existential horror of Stalinist Russia.

Like a Pink Floyd epic unfolding in some kind of nightmare dimension, the group takes listeners across the decimated countrysides, through the villages thinned through famine, through the cities choking with fear, and finally deep into the gulags where millions died of starvation, disease, overwork, torture and execution.

It is a vision of almost transcendent horror. To their credit, Bolt Gun walk this territory with considerable subtlety - their work is not an explosion of aural violence, but rather a meditative, multi-faceted, and slowly underfolding cinematic journey, which utilises elements of 1970s progressive and psychedelic music, fused with aspects of black metal, post-rock, ambience and drone.

Drifting through the wreckage of shattered bone and screaming psyches, we can hear influence from groups like Swans, Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore, Einstuerzende Neubauten, The Necks, Khanate and Corrupted.

For this album, Bolt Gun drew influence from Konstantin Lopushansky "A Museum Visitor", as well as works by Tarkovsky and Kieslowski. For this reason, the album is best accompanied by imagery from these films.

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released November 14, 2017

All songs by Bolt Gun

Vocals - A.T.

Guitars, additional vocals, synths - Jon Vayla

Bass guitar - Valent Macukat

Drums - Talya Valenti


MAN IS WOLF TO MAN

Recorded at Rada Studios by Dan Carroll in December 2016.

Additional recording at Bad God Motel by Jon Vayla

Mixed at Rada Studios by Dan Carroll.

Mastered by Jon Vayla at Bad God Motel.

Man is Wolf to Man is dedicated to
Pete "Black Captain" Dunstan
1972-2015
Rest in Peace brother

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