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With the release of Black Magnet\u2019s debut album \u2018Hallucination Scene\u2019 in 2020 a new Industrial Metal power emerged from the unlikely landscape of Oklahoma City. After anxiously waiting out the pandemic Black Magnet returned to the road in late 2021 and has now dropped \u2018Body Prophecy\u2019 the second full-length burst of machine-driven mayhem and electronic deviance.

On \u2018Body Prophecy\u2019 mastermind, James Hammontree welds the frenetic vitality of post-punk and metal energy with driving synthetic club beats, factory force physicality, and alluringly stark melodic pulses. Tracks like \u2018Floating in Nothing\u2019 and \u2018Violent Mechanix\u2019 feature both intensely catchy hooks and hammering brutal noise. \u2018Sold Me Sad\u2019 is a quietly deranged lullaby that takes an atmospheric turn. The throbbing drug-addled lurch of the Manson / Reznor-esque \u2018Incubate\u2019 is, at the end of the album, treated to a completely re-imagined and extended club-style remix by scene legend Justin K. Broadrick (Godflesh, Zonal, etc).

For all its harsher, scraping atmospheres and pummeling aggression \u2018Body Prophecy\u2019 always remains an eminently tight, memorable album molded for the stage and constructed to keep bodies in motion and listeners transfixed.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• How The Kybalion impacted James\u2019s life/creative practice
• Hermeticism and the 7 Hermetic principles
• Folklore behind \u201cRing Around The Rosie\u201d
• Draxler\u2019s visual contribution to Black Magnet\u2019s newest album \u201cBody Prophecy\u201d
• Recording \u201cBody Prophecy\u201d during the early stages of the pandemic
• James working with Justin K Broadrick
• Suffering through challenging material to grow one\u2019s creative perspective
• Looking past genres to develop a deeper relationship with artworks
• Tapping into your highest vibration, frequency, and energy
• Creating art with absolute honesty
• Embracing the paradox
• Transforming negative outlooks into positive perspectives
• \u201cThe Pregnant Void\u201d in Taoism

Artists / People Mentioned:

• Salvador Dal\xed\xa0(Surrealist Painter)
• Francis Bacon (Painter)
• Max Ernst (Surrealist Painter)
• Mitch Horowitz (Author / Occult Historian)
• Jay Cheel (Director)
• Andrei Tarkovsky (Director)
• Alejandro Jodorosky\xa0(Director)
• David Lynch\xa0(Director)
• Alan Watts (Writer)

Bands / Musicians Mentioned:

• Justin K. Broadrick
• Godflesh
• Jesu
• Vatican Shadow
• Killing Joke
• The Birthday Party
• Big Black
• Meshuggah
• Blood Incantation
• Greg Puciato

Books Mentioned:

• The Kybalion
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Occult: A History
• Man, Myth, and Magic Series
• The Hellbound Heart
• I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Films / TV Series Mentioned:

• Midsommar
• Cursed Films
• Serpent and the Rainbow
• Twilight Zone Movie
• The Birds
• The Exorcist
• Poltergeist
• Stalker
• Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
• Hereditary
• The Witch
• The Crow
• The Wizard of OZ
• Weeds
• Hellraiser

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