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Omni

by Skin Tension

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starofthecosmos
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starofthecosmos Skin Tension are just an incredible act all around. This album is just a big mindfuck. All these different fusions of metal, noise, jazz, improv, ambience, electronica, glitch, experimental, prog, punk and so much more is just a hell of an experience. won’t be forgetting this anytime soon. if you have the time i implore you to hear this. it is worth it Favorite track: ZJ6. Indigo.
Audrey Cusack
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Audrey Cusack I think this can be summed up as a monument to excess; a watershed, a warning, and a celebration of when art is taken to its absolute limits. The equivalent of masses of archival material that somehow fits together better than most metal records coming out today. If this is what Skin Tension defines themselves by, they're probably going down in history. Favorite track: ZI4. Drain Parabola.
Stagger
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Stagger This is exactly why I listen to music.
This is way beyond epic!!! Favorite track: F3. Holographic Speculum.
dyingstarsinmyeyes
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dyingstarsinmyeyes Very intriguing direction to take free jazz, black metal and electronic music into. These guys are also absolutely elite musical performers. This is music to study, nothing less.
lxfisk
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lxfisk Epic and majestic in the bleakest way possible Favorite track: S5. Waning Moon.
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about

SKIN TENSION IV: OMNI
131 tracks, 36 sides, 27 hours total.

Since our last album was relatively minimal, we decided to take it in the opposite direction. We wanted this album to represent absolutely everything we're into as a band, so naturally, it became this chaotic maximalist 27 hour hypermixtape from hell. The idea of "The Skin Box" was always joked about, how we'd "do something stupid like release a days worth of music etc", and this is funny because this kind of stuff always comes full circle. Thoughts become things, and here we are, it's Omni time. Ed and I had a creative explosion from October 2020 to December 2021; an excess of material to say the least. In total, we had over 200 hours of recorded music and this is the best of that era. We could've released multiple albums as different projects but we found a common thread that runs throughout Omni; these tracks cover a plethora of genres and styles, but together, the pieces form one cohesive experience.
This album covers so many different genres and dynamics. Each side could be treated as it's own release, but there is a clear sense of progression that ties Omni together. You can hear Edward and I growing as musicians, and our chemistry as a duo is constantly evolving.

Haters be damned, this is Skin Tension with no compromises.

credits

released February 6, 2022

-Joshua D. Byrd- recording and production, drums, eurorack synthesizer, electronics, field recordings, additional guitar and bass, percussion, additional vox, tapes, casios, fan organ, speedrack, glass
-Edward Longo- additional recording and production, 9 string guitar, vox, Nord synthesizer, organ, Tascam porta-two, tapes, electronics, laptop

FEATURING: (in order of appearance):
-JayVe Montgomery- saxophone on A1 and ZD1
-Colin Fisher- saxophone on D1 and ZC2
-Scott Mattingly- various guitars, keys, electronics on J2, M-Q, ZA5
-Ryan Clackner- guitar on L1
-Alex Young- additional samples on R1
-Will Newman- percussion on ZC3 and ZG2, additional samples on ZG2 and ZH6
-Spencer Moore- percussion on ZC3 and ZG2
-Neil Maclean- percussion on ZC3 and ZG2
-Audrey Cusak- electronics on ZI4

Final mixes and arrangement by Joshua D. Byrd
Mastered by Blake Patterson
Cover art by Enzo Lederer-Morihisa

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