BLACK MAGNET - Hermetix (From 'Body Prophecy' LP, 2022) Official Video

BLACK MAGNET 'Hermetix'' Body Prophecy Releasing on LP / CD / DIGITAL July 29th 2022 1. A History of Drowning 2. Violent Mechanix 3. Floating in Nothing 4. Incubate 5. Hermetix 6. Wolverine Dreams 7. Body World 8. Sold Me Sad 9. Last Curse 10. Dowsing 11. Incubate - Justin K. Broadrick Remix With the release of Black Magnet’s debut album ‘Hallucination Scene’ 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 now drop ‘Body Prophecy’ the second full length burst of machine driven mayhem and electronic deviance. On ‘Body Prophecy’ 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 ‘Floating in Nothing’ and ‘Violent Mechanix’ feature both intensely catchy hooks and hammering brutal noise. ‘Sold Me Sad’ is a quietly deranged lullaby that takes an atmospheric turn. The throbbing drug-addled lurch of the Manson / Reznor-esque ‘Incubate’ 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 ‘Body Prophecy’ always remains an eminently tight, memorable album molded for the stage and constructed to keep bodies in motion and listeners transfixed. Credits: Black Magnet is James Hammontree Engineered and mixed by Sanford Parker at Hypercube Studios, Chicago IL Mastered by Collin Jordan at the Boiler Room, Chicago, IL Artwork by Jesse Draxler Photos by Johnny Bohlen ‘Hermetix’ deals with the ancient principles of Hermeticism examined in the occult book ‘The Kybalion’, among others. The song is about the physical body disintegrating and only the consciousness of the mind remaining. “Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates. Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations.” These ideals have created a psychic screen in my mind in which I filter most decisions through. We know our bodies die but know nothing of what remains of our consciousness, except perhaps small glitches we see at times of heightened awareness. Almost all extraordinary experiences stem from these moments and are memorable until our final end. I believe there are ways and techniques in which to expound upon these experiences and use them as powerful tools for the personal development of our own current wakeful consciousness. Principles of the occult, Hermeticism, Mind Power Metaphysics, Psycho Cybernetics, and New Thought contain some of the most useful literary relics of history that seem to be majorly ignored in the times in which we live. Can our consciousness be redeveloped? Are we relegated to the current mental and spiritual systems in which we live? All is the mind and the mind is all.