Converter – Shock Front (1999)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

1. Conqueror 08:05
2. Shock Front 07:15
3. Cannibals 05:00
4. Spirit Shield 06:24
5. Coma 06:12
6. Sacrifice 08:13
7. Memory-Trace 09:23
8. Deadman (Perdition) 04:38
9. Denogginizer 11:40
10. Sadist 03:19

 

Converter is the brainchild of Ohio based artist Scott Sturgis,

also the force behind the project Pain Station, Lowness and Notime, created in 1998.
Converter saw its first release in 1999, with "Shock Front",

a mature work in the same vein as other artists in the Ant-Zen family such as P·A·L and Imminent Starvation,

as well as well-known rhythmic noise innovators like Dive and Esplendor Geometrico.
The project investigates the industrial field, and with his debut album Sturgis creates hard hitting, 

rhythmic noise filled with bombastic machine-driven rhythms coupled with tweaked synths

creating an atmosphere of distorted aggression reinforced by a wall of impenetrable percussion on nearly every track. Sturgis also began his own label, Auricle Media, in 2000 with fellow artist KarloZ.M of Manufactura.

 
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