Graf Orlock has never shied away from some pretty interesting concepts for their albums and their coming one is no different. Graf Orlock has announced Examination Of Violent Cinema, Volume 1 for December 7, whose subject matter will deal entirely with "the last decades’ endlessly recycled and not-nearly-violent-enough releases," specifically a lack of good 2017 films.
“A testament to the rigor mortis of the vapid film industry… Inspired by a dearth of good 2017 films, Examination finds Graf Orlock in fine classic form; basing the entirety of this new release on twelve violent 2017 movies commingled with haphazard and bizarre ideas laid over pointlessly confrontational lyrical content.
Contained therein is not only commentary on the weak and prosaic state of the last decades’ endlessly recycled and not-nearly-violent-enough releases, but also the question of how one could even contemplate the creation of ‘art’ in a landscape so devoid of vision. If there will never again be the singularity of almost-politicism and almost-social commentary that was the beauty of 1987’s Predator, should we continue to push this same human-sized ball of celluloid and shit interminably up the same hill?”
Examination Of Violent Cinema, Volume 1's LP version will be packaged in a body bag jacket "with perforations in a triangle like an autopsied corpse." The record was tracked with Kris Hilbert at Legitimate Business in Greensboro, NC, and you can find the movie-reference tracklist below.
01 – “Back In The Ground”
02 – “Alternate Route To Mexico”
03 – “Dominant Species”
04 – “He Jumped Off A Roof”
05 – “Steps To Eggroom”
06 – “A Man Named Suicide”
07 – “Five Star General”
08 – “Go Away (To Paradise)”
09 – “Minimum Freedom”
10 – “Extreme Measures”
11 – “Rooftop Anarchy”
12 – “Almost Human”
