S.D.E.K.

Running Time: ~25 mins
Release Date: To Be Confirmed

The music of Super Death Explosion Kittens matches the title, being hectic, dense and vicious, but above all: absurdly fun. Taking cues from technical metal bands, the EP represents a more stripped down and direct version of the Achenar sound, but also a compositionally more complex one.

Shunning traditional notions of scale and melody, the riffs and structures are instead created by arranging various industrial textures in conjunction with more traditional, though still frantic, percussion. This is however reconciled for the final song, where harmony and discord collide.

The EP is still under development, with song progress shown in the table above. Note that the track titles are not final. There have been three demos made available, which you can stream below, though they obviously do not represent the final compositions or the mix.

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Formed 2003 in the Highlands of Scotland with the intent to create music filled with emotion, power and extremity from any angle. Inspiration is taken from a wide variety of influences in many genres. As such, anything that the song demands to fulfil its potential is utilised. Be it acoustic or electronic instruments, samples or field recordings, pure instrumentals or lyrically driven structures; all combined with any number of vocal styles.

Sole member, Duncan Hemingway, composes, records, mixes and masters everything himself and does not perform live, partly due to location and partly due to the nature of the material. Future contributions by others to the music of Achenar and live approximations of the music have not been ruled out entirely, however.