Clash of the Life-Force Warriors

In the wake of their respective debut albums, Providence’s Athletic Automaton and Montreal’s AIDS Wolf came face to face, stripped bare of armor, wielding weapons of choice.With the battle lines drawn, each band tallied forcefully, committing individual tracks to tape. But as the war waged on, members defected from side to side, new alliances were formed, and the hard lines blurred.What emerged from the battlefield was an entirely new entity: bloodied, unbowed, and undefeated. Recorded by Patrick Crump in Rhode Island and Radwan Moumneh (Cursed, Ire and the Black Hand) at One Hundred Sided Die in Montreal, Skin Graft Records presents Clash of the Life-Force Warriors on dueling formats: as a compact disc and gatefold-sleeved vinyl LP, intimately designed by Montreal’s Seripop. Athletic Automaton is guitarist Stephen Mattos, formerly of Arab On Radar; and drummer Patrick Crump, Pellum 123 expatriate. AIDS Wolf is concussionist Hiroshima Thunder, singer Special Deluxe, and guitarists Barbarian Destroyer and HIM,The Magi. AIDS Wolf vs. Athletic Automaton is the dawn of a new age: a crystalline declaration of independence for an uncivilized world.