Death Is Certain, by Jimmy Smack

Death Is Certain

by Jimmy Smack

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emuziek Anguish! Wow, what an amazing deep trance, shaman-like, albeit apocalyptic, experience! I played around with the track on my set adding extra delay & effects. The chimes and percussion... Listen to the message. "Trees burnin' at at an alarming rate..." So cool. Memento mori - death is certain. Thanks for getting this released. www.mixcloud.com/emuziek/anguish/ Favorite track: Anguish.

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After decades dormant in the crypt, Knekelhuis finally compiles Smack’s full recorded output, providing it a lavish place to rest on the Death Is Certain LP.

Includes unlimited streaming of Death Is Certain via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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'Death Is Certain' Natural Transparant (Ltd Edition) LP
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
After decades dormant in the crypt, Knekelhuis finally compiles Smack’s full recorded output, providing it a lavish place to rest on the Death Is Certain LP.

Includes unlimited streaming of Death Is Certain via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Anguish 09:50	buy track
2.	Hating Life 03:12	buy track
3.	Depression 02:08	buy track
4.	Souls 01:25	buy track
5.	Cybernetic 01:38	buy track
6.	Death Is Certain 01:55	buy track
7.	The Scarlet Beast 01:38	buy track
8.	Batty 02:30	buy track
9.	Anguish (Instrumental) 08:50	buy track

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Across two 7”s, Death Or Glory (1982) and Death Rocks (1983) and one 12”, Anguish (1982) Jimmy Smack carved his own bleak chasm amidst the LA Death Rock scene that he inhabited. After decades dormant in the crypt, Knekelhuis finally compiles Smack’s full recorded output, providing it a lavish place to rest on the Death Is Certain LP.

While his local punk contemporaries pursued aggressive hardcore and political punk, Jimmy Smack donned corpse paint (before it would later become synonymous with the European black metal movement) and found a home performing in venues like the Anti-Club, amongst other subterranean dwellers Christian Death, Dead Hippie and 45 Grave.

Even within this lurid milieu, Jimmy Smack stood alone. Hating Life (from Death Rocks) easily locates Jimmy within the negative-punk and KBD lexicon. However his recordings, consisting of voice, rhythm box and electrified bagpipe drones, otherwise veer closer to other-worldly avant-garde rituals. Jimmy’s background in theatre and performance art helping inform not only his menacing stage presence, but also spawning the singularity of his sound.

Death Is Certain comes housed in a printed inner sleeve featuring rarely seen archival photos, liner notes by Cooper Bowman and excerpts from an interview with Jimmy Smack conducted by Juan Mendez (Silent Servant).

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released March 7, 2022

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Jimmy Smack Los Angeles, California

While his local punk contemporaries pursued aggressive hardcore and political punk, Jimmy Smack donned corpse paint (before it would later become synonymous with the European black metal movement) and found a home performing in venues like the Anti-Club, amongst other subterranean dwellers Christian Death, Dead Hippie and 45 Grave. ... more

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