Extinction Level, by Anchor and Burden

Extinction Level

by Anchor and Burden

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Peter Just awesome! These guys keep getting better with each album. I would say this is their heaviest recording yet. The musicianship is top notch as always. Can’t wait to get the CD version of this soon.

tubers69 an angular and fragmented , eviscerating amalgam of textures .highly recommended.

gpagano wear hazmat gear, get your go-pack, find shelter. Brace yourself for being shattered. in the heirarchy of beautiful cacophony, this is royalty. Their best yet.

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	1.	Fractured Self 10:39
	2.	Body Expansion 11:37
	3.	Mutual Assured Destruction 09:02 video
	4.	Nine Gates to Dominion 09:54
	5.	Extinction Phase 18:25
	6.	The Crust of this Earth 06:54

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Anchor and Burden is an uncompromising progressive avantgarde doom-jazz post-metal band based in Berlin, Germany, which has their own style of collective instant composition that defies the norms of creation. They create monolithic doom behemoths only to tear them into shreds with boundless energy in the next moment.

The two 8-string touch guitaristsMarkus Reuter and Alexander Dowerk conjure a wide array of moods with their unique instruments: From ethereal whispers out of sci-fi realms ot cerebral virtuosity that fractures the very psyche unto crushing metal brutality that leaves the listener gasping for their breath.

Bernhard Wöstheinrich weaves a web of synths and self-modulating percussive machinery, an arcane undercurrent beneath the towering monoliths of guitar, as fi sentient space stations traverse the void.
Drummer Asaf Sirkis, the virtuoso master of rhythm, wields his jazz and Indian polyrhythms not merely to forge a pulsating heartbeat, but also to break up and shift the quartet's music into unexpected places with his complex hyper jazz rhythms.

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released March 22, 2024

Markus Reuter: Touch Guitars AU8 and S8, Soundscapes
Alexander Paul Dowerk: Touch Guitars S8
Bernhard Wöstheinrich: Keyboards and Electronics
Asaf Sirkis: Drums and Percussion

All music written and performed by Anchor and Burden
Recorded by Arno Jordan at Castle Studios, Röhrsdorf, Germany
Mixed by Stefano Castagna at Ritmo&Blu Studio
Mastered by Lee Fletcher

Produced by Markus Reuter and Alexander Paul Dowerk

Artwork by Ruben Pang, www.rubenpangstudio.com
Graphic Design by Alexander Paul Dowerk

© & ℗ 2024 Reuter, Dowerk, Wöstheinrich, Sirkis

www.anchorandburden.com
www.moonjune.com

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

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