IAMCHAINSAW

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“I let her do whatever she wanted to do to me that day in the cabin. It wasn’t painful, nor was it terrifying, but it was disgusting – just as I’d always hoped it to be.”
Ottessa Moshfegh – A Dark and Winding Road

PΞB is pain, PΞB is joy, it’s an illness, but can be a cure, it’s machines at work, but as human as it gets, it’s metal and raw flesh, it’s about terror, horror, shock and trauma, and a remedy for all of the above. It finds beauty in the ruins, serenity in noise, liberation in chains … and chainsaws. Born out of a healthy disgust and a tendency for perfection, PΞB was puked into the world by Edelfaul-co-founder Ilia Gorovitz on drums and electronic devices and obscure Berlin underground celebrity Asja Skrinik shouting, yelling and pushing buttons. The place of both conception and birth was that same furnace where pretty much most of our ideas are being spawned. To those who witnessed its first staggering steps, PΞB was some next level shit from the get go.

In a painstaking, yet totally natural process of arguing, spiralling and overthinking, the infernal duo has honed its skills into a precision weapon that has devastated small and mid sized venues all over Berlin and a fair share of Europe, even before the first recordings were done. Their live set, best enjoyed loud, quickly became infamous for its raw energy, murderous drum beats, distorted bass bombardment and nihilist lyrics on overdrive. Taking cues from industrial and rap music as well as from Grand Guignol theatre, way too many horror movies, the possessed vocalisms of Diamanda Galas and Lingua Ignota, deep throat metal shouting and spoken word poetry, they have undoubtedly carved out their own way into the landscape of unpopular music.

Finally, in early 2024, PΞB started laying down the first tracks of their debut album: brutal snapshots from real life, filtered through their tools and methods that mostly aim at maximum satisfaction by way of maximum impact. The long process paid off, their live program was captured in all its distorted glory and carefully overdubbed. In a typical PΞB move, they decided to add transitional tracks found among hours of recorded sessions that went beyond the usual set-up of drums, vocals and electronics, and included field recordings and all sorts of feedback loops, distortions and weirdifications. Building up a parallel narrative to the shock and awe of their core set, these interludes, with their own series of cryptic names, might serve as breathing spaces for your phantom-bleeding ears and a way for your mind to process what has just happened, before the next avalanche of brutal drums, mangled noises and hellfire lyrics demands all your senses and survival skills.

Have a great nightmare! Limited edition of 50 copies only.

Tracklist:
A1. N52°3 01:39
A2. S;FG 05:25
A3. 0’3. 02:11
A4. SIKSA 03:48
A5. 214″ 01:42
A6. PYRN 05:20
B1. Ξ13° 01:39
B2. STFN 05:10
B3. 26`36. 03:09
B4. GWEN 03:57
B5. 952″ 01:47
B6. DGFPP.2 04:14