Accidental Alchemy: Early Works

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skintape Some of the greatest, eeriest, most thought provoking tracks I’ve ever heard. Amazing stuff from Gruntsplatter. Favorite track: Gressil.

Cody Drasser The pain in my chest and throat grew continually worse. It was always raining. The wind drove it deep beneath the skin until my bones hurt. This spring, leaves never formed on the trees and not a flower was to be seen. More people disappeared without a trace. The birds were seen flying away and not turning back. I can't remember a day where the sun showed its face. I was always tired. So tired.

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1.	Immolating The Nest 06:09	info	buy track
2.	Horripilation 02:24	info	buy track
3.	Dolmen 08:16	info	buy track
4.	Gressil 05:43	info	buy track
5.	Teirinn 05:29	info	buy track
6.	Hush 06:46	info	buy track
7.	The Flagellant 04:24	info	buy track
8.	Ascending Marrow 04:41	info	buy track
9.	Bloodsoil 06:15	info	buy track
10.	Gravemound 08:37	info	buy track
11.	The Prophetic Maw 05:33	info	buy track
12.	The Parasitic Twin 04:29	info	buy track
13.	Crawling Wounded 07:18	info	buy track
14.	Steep (Remix) 03:06	info	buy track

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tracks 1-6
originally appeared on a split CD with Ruhr Hunter released on Glass Throat Recordings 1998
tracks 7-11
originally appeared on a split CD with Slowvent released on Crionic Mind 1998
track 12
originally appeared on the compilation Depth of Beyond CS released on Troniks 2000
track 13
previously unreleased from sometime between 1996-98
track 14
original version appeared on the compilation Tape Heads Two CS released on HalTapes 1998

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released April 19, 2020

gruntsplatter is Scott E. Candey

All recordings, except track 12, recorded at 4 track Mind, San Francisco. Track 12 recorded at Life of the Mind, San Francisco
Mastered for the first time in 2020 by Thomas Garrison

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gruntsplatter Portland, Oregon

Gruntsplatter was born in 1994 as a malleable creature that congealed somewhere in the gray area between Noise and Dark Ambient.

I tend to draw from literature and the death rattles and rituals of our eroding gene pool. As the project has evolved it has become largely based around personal and sociological themes that deal with the erosion of humanity and a dystopian inevitability ... more

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