Name: I'm The Devil and I'm Ok
Brand: Split Cranium

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Bonus disc: No

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ipc199cd

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-05-25

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Signed copies: No

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PIAS

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Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0689230019923

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

ipc199lprd

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Extended format: Yes

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0689230020318

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Split Cranium

Genre GB

Metal

Label GB

Ipecac Recordings

Ipecac Recordings, founded by Greg Werckman and Mike Patton in 1999, has been making waves in the music industry for over two decades. With a reputation for pushing boundaries and challenging conventions, this label has earned its slogan of "Making people sick since 1999".

During its early years, Ipecac Recordings faced challenges in reaching European audiences. Fans had to import their favorite releases from the label's website or American online stores. However, thanks to partnerships with Caroline Distribution and Southern Records between 2000 and 2006, European editions became more accessible.

In 2006, Ipecac signed an exclusive distribution deal with Fontana for both Europe and the USA. This milestone allowed the label to expand its reach even further and solidify its presence in the global music scene.

Ipecac Recordings release the new and second album from the trans-atlantic group Split Cranium - which features Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer, Mara), Aaron Turner (Mammifer, Sumac, Old Man Gloom and so much more), Nate Newton (Converge, Doomriders, Old Man Gloom), Tomi Leppänen (Circle, K-X- P) and Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle) - entitled I'm The Devil and I'm Ok. The self-titled debut was an exhilerating barrage of super-charged hardcore, replete with blitzkrieg riffing, stampeding pace, and gravel-throated ire, a ferocious homage to Nordic d-beat masters Terveet Kädet and Anti Cimex. Six years later, their second album, I'm The Devi and I'm Ok comparitively explores the contrasts of melody and dissonance, opening the album with Popol Vuh-inspired keyboards by Faith Coloccia that saturate the ruthless reinterpretation of the Discharge template on Evil Hands. The contrasting breaths of sublime ambience serve to highlight the savagery abetted by bassist Nate Newton and Tomi Leppänen (Circle, K-X- P), making I’m The Devil and I’m Ok simultaneously more sonically rounded and more visceral and vicious. While Split Cranium continues to be driven by the blazing guitar malaise of Lehtisalo and the harrowing bellows of Turner, the melodic counterpoint provided by Newton on Wet Shadow, the ethereal vocals summoned by Coloccia on Ingurgitated Liquids and Death Bed – The Yellow Room, and the squalls of white noise on Whirling Dusk are a but a few of the components that knock I’m The Devil and I’m Ok off the axis of traditional d-beat hardcore. Some of the strongest records in the anarcho-punk canon have figured out ways to inject melody or push extremes without diffusing their punch or diminishing their hooks. Split Cranium retains the principal components of speed and vitriol while expanding their frequency spectrum into realms of both beauty and sheer ugliness, making I’m The Devil and I’m Ok a white-knuckle mind-melter in a realm of sterile imitations.

I'm The Devil and I'm Ok

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