Death To The Planet by The Comet Is Coming
Formats: Limited edition “Comet Fire” orange vinyl 12” EP (700 copies) (DOCK 64X) Limited edition black vinyl 12" EP (300 copies) (DOCK 64) Limited edition "Ultra Deep Blue" vinyl 12" EP (500 copies) (DOCK 64RT)
Release Date: 22 April 2017
Death to the world as we know it.
Death to preconceived notions of truth.
Death to empires built on the rotting concept of hierarchy.
The artist’s role in any age is to reflect the zeitgeist, holding a mirror to the world. This is a time of darkness, requiring an honest expression of our generation’s rage, inertia, hopelessness but most importantly resilience, unity and love. With disparate and insidious manifestations of oppression, loss of agency befalls a generation searching for their role in the resistance. We need more than ever a music to articulate and embody these sentiments and enable the strength to envision change.
The Comet Is Coming, signaling an end to life as we know it, heralding the dawn of a new age. In the inevitable physical destruction of the planet, a space is created where all notions of political, social and economic hierarchy will be at once obliterated and transcended.
We see death as the first stage of rebirth. A chance for new ideas, sounds and ways of interacting to grow. Death as linked to life. Destruction as linked to creation. As a species we must embrace progression and motion as demonstrated by the celestial forces which underpin our ecosystem and enable our evolutionary progress.
Start running.
Betamax Killer, Danalogue The Conqueror and King Shabaka, January 2017
Following the Prophecy EP and Channel The Spirits (A Mercury Prize Album Of The Year), Death To The Planet is the next chapter, released for Record Store Day 2017.
Death To The Planet documents a collaborative approach to composition through spontaneous improvisation, mixed and produced by Danalogue the Conqueror and Betamax Killer.
X1. 1. Start Running
X2. 2. Final Eclipse (full version)
O1. 3. March Of The Rising Sun
O2. 4. Ascension