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░ ██ ██ Artist: Dawn Ray'd ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: The Unlawful Assembly █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2017 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2017-11-17 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Black Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Prosthetic Records ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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░█ █░ ▀
█ "Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable █
█ motto, 'Freedom.' Freedom to discover any truth, █
█ freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully." █
█ █
█ So said writer, organizer, and anarchist icon Lucy █
█ Parsons almost a century ago, and her words still █
█ ring true over the crumbling dystopia in which █
█ those she allied herself with - women, people of █
█ color, workers, revolutionaries - still struggle █
█ for air. Anarchism as a political philosophy has █
█ been so distorted by the state, the media, and its █
█ own currently obscure status on the leftist █
█ spectrum that most of those who seek to understand █
█ - or castigate - its principles and tactics still █
█ have no concept of that which every anarchist █
█ fights for: liberation. █
█ █
█ Liberation from the state, from the bosses, from █
█ hierarchy - liberation from all systems of █
█ oppression, for all people. █
█ █
█ Despite extreme metal's current slide towards the █
█ reactionary right, its inherent sense of █
█ rebellion, dislike for authority, and value for █
█ individual freedom is far more in line with █
█ leftist political philosophies (whether or not all █
█ the neo-Nazi filth and rotten Nazi apologists █
█ stinking up its darker corners agree.) █
█ █
█ Dawn Ray'd understands this perfectly, channeling █
█ that revolutionary spirit into a strain of black █
█ metal that owes as much to Iskra and Anti-Cimex as █
█ it does the windswept folk traditions of working █
█ class Northern England and classic Norwegian black █
█ metal. The Liverpudlian trio's new album, The █
█ Unlawful Assembly, breathes new fire into black █
█ metal's small but sturdy leftist tradition, █
█ crafting potent, violin-laced atmospheric black █
█ metal songs that double as battle hymns for the █
█ class war. █
█ █
█ "The Unlawful Assembly feels like a realizing of █
█ what and who this band is," said vocalist and █
█ violinist Simon B. "Our debut EP, A Thorn, A █
█ Blight, was our first release together as a black █
█ metal band, and I'm proud of it, but this record █
█ for me is a fully realized example of what this █
█ band needs to be. This is the black metal band I █
█ want to hear, these are politics I am looking for █
█ but never finding in music, and it is the subtlety █
█ and also drama that I think black metal is meant █
█ to have." █
█ █
█ Never forget: until we are all free, we are none █
█ of us free. █
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░ 1. Fire Sermon 4:28 ░
░ 2. The Abyssal Plain 4:13 ░
░ 3. Future Perfect Conditional 4:20 ░
░ 4. Emptiness Beneath the Great Emptiness 3:17 ░
░ 5. A Litany to Cowards 3:10 ░
░ 6. The Ceaseless Arbitary Choice 4:46 ░
░ 7. Held in a Lunar Synthesis 4:28 ░
░ 8. Strike Again the Hammer Sings 4:33 ░
░ 9. Island of Cannibal Horses 5:07 ░
░ 10. A Thought, Ablaze 5:29 ░
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