All Are to Return Post “Bare Life” Video
If you missed All Are to Return‘s 2020 self-titled debut EP (review here) when it came out through Tartarus Records, the industrial noise duo’s video for “Bare Life” should offer a bit of a glimpse at what they’re all about. Hard-hitting, distorted beats bury likewise harsh screamed vocals, the procession moving at a clow, consuming pace all the while. In the video, it’s given sparse movement flashing on the EP’s cover at first that builds over its four-minute course, but the proceedings are extreme the entire time, and the same holds true of the EP’s five tracks, whether a given part is raging or ambient, subversive or pummeling.
I’ve spent a decent amount of time with this EP since it came my way and I still feel like I’m getting to know it as a work of industrial doom. But I dig it and I find a lot of commonality of purpose with a project I have going kind of quietly under the radar as well (shh…). Tartarus has tapes, as they will, and longsleeve t-shirts, which might not do much for you when it’s 100-degrees out, but, you know, still somehow feel extra appropriate for industrial music to me somehow. I’m not sure why that makes sense, but it does.
Dig the space in this mix, the way the drone underscores the beat, the vocals extreme but far back enough to be atmospheric. I’m way on board with that.
Enjoy:
All Are to Return, “Bare Life” official video
Two-man formation All Are To Return merge hauntingly raw vocals with violent synth-percussion and powerful bass riffs. Born from enforced isolation, the duo’s first EP presents industrial-doom carrying an experimental edge – measured brutality with an urgent sense of dread.
A solitary raging in the dark – All Are To Return’s debut EP is raw in mood and execution. The sound combines harsh alienating vocals, with aggressive analogue synths and gritty resonant guitar. With this first outing All Are To Return explore doom through an integration of machine-music. In this, tension is both theme and structuring principle. This is expressed in the shape of the songs – with a certain cinematic quality – and echoed through the song-titles. One might say the EP is haunted by the specter of societal disintegration. There are echoes of bleak political philosophies – life naked to the brutality of a state in fear.
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Credits
Music written and produced by AATR
Video shot and edited by Dejavie
All Are to Return, All Are to Return (2020)
All Are to Return on Soundcloud
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