
"It is now thought that almost half of the population reacts to extreme stress through some form of self-harm. Honor the untold deaths that happen during a sensationalized blood-shedding event, but whose unknown faces never get media attention or have their names added to the official body count.
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"In this current climate of celebrity-worship that has surpassed itself by now living in the white house, where the personal belongings of mass murderers sell for massive amounts of money and respect online, where countless reams of speculative psychological profiles have been written on the subject of each and every serial killer's morbidly fascinating psychopathy, it felt necessary to honor the innocent dead instead. It was created by The Deletist, an artist, experimental filmmaker, graphic novelist and analogue/electronic musician who currently works inside a converted off-grid 20-ton diesel box truck that functions as a 100-square-foot recording and art studio affectionately dubbed "BleakHausTruk."

Today (December 16th), Gnaw have teamed with Revolver to unleash the song as well as its eerie animated video, which also delves into the story of Sam of Sam. (You can pre-order it now via Bandcamp.) It opens with a cover of Einstürzende Neubauten's 1981 song "Kollaps" and, from there, transitions into three originals that Dubin aptly describes as "noisy, experimental, electronic songs." A standout is "Rid the City," a nearly nine-minute bad trip on which the vocalist whispers, shrieks and caterwauls, his words inspired by the 1977 Son of Sam murders. His current project Gnaw specializes in a similarly avant-garde mix of metal and noise, and its forthcoming EP, Barking Orders, due January 31st via Sleeping Giant Glossolalia, pulls no punches. As the vocalist of long-running abstract doom terrorists Khanate, he screamed and howled like a tortured animal snared in an endless nightmare. Alan Dubin knows something about making extreme music.
