FRAGMENT KING

>>FRAGMENT KING mission statement

Break//Drone//Hack: the FRAGMENT KING is the tortured soul of mechanical doom, devouring the chill of digital beat sequencing, the force of death and doom metal guitars, the insanity of power electronics noise and vocals. All songwriting, production and performance is conducted by Mark Kammerbauer.

>>FRAGMENT KING history

Flesh//Machines//Software: FRAGMENT KING began as the continuation of freejazz-grindcore band NEW LEADERSHIP, with electronic and digital means, but with the aesthetic of heavy guitars constantly in mind. After a first vinyl appearance in 1999 and beginning of live actions in 2001, the FRAGMENT KING sound began to consolidate with the Nexialist release of the "Live At Si" cassette tape in 2002 and the "Simple Things Are Often Monstrous" split vinyl release with NEXICON. In continuation, FRAGMENT KING employed guitars, bass guitars, vocals and software on the pathomechanical and anatomic recordings in 2003 and 2004, pieces of which have been appearing on compilations throughout the underground, in addition to various remixes. Crushing atmospheric heavyness, grinding compression of time/space, elegiac out-of-body movement and radical audible butchery. A personal discourse on destiny: the questions are the answers. Now, FRAGMENT KING returns with digital beatwork, detuned chords and treated voice on the "Grey Album", his first release for notorious ultracore label Invasion Wreck Chords.

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AMBASSADOR21 vs. FRAGMENT KING "Good Morning W."

What do you get when an unstoppable force hits an immovable mass? Famed ultracore duo of industrial punk, the invincible AMBASSADOR 21, have squared off with the tortured soul of mechanical doom, the incredible FRAGMENT KING, in a titanic death-battle of the giants! Monster island residents, beware!
OBSERVE! As treated, ultra-low end bass hits the blistering mechanics of digital beats!
BEHOLD! As mighty grinding sounds blend with hostile screaming of female vocals almost beyond human ken.
Originally recorded as an in-promptu, improvised session, recorded on-location during one session in central Europe, our three combatants of sound, Natasha + Alexey Protasov and Mark Kammerbauer created a powerful amalgamation of their united talent, for your ears only, to blow your speakers (and your mind) at home! AMBASSADOR 21 VS. FRAGMENT KING. GOOD MORNING W. 9 tracks of halforganic human-electronic-digital destruction.
World, beware!

INV036 (C)&(P) Invasion Wreck Chords 2006

FRAGMENT KING "Grey Album"

"...so you want a piece of me? only a piece, because you don't need the totality?
sure, cut off what you need, from me lying on that stainless steel table, just as if i was a labrat and you the pathologist...run away from the horror, run and clench your wirehanger fist, hack your life away until you can't consume anymore, run away from the ruins that your life has become...and whose fault is it? is it because mechanization has taken control? because others force their calm upon you? because you feel as if your body flakes away like ash, while everyone else seems like a fucking monolith? because nature itself looks like they've stitched prosthetics onto everything, onto everyone, all you hate, all you love? is already the pathology brewing in your heart, boiling to the point where the black vomit wrenches thee, when autolysis sets in? to the point when you wish you could be a brutalitarian and cleanse the grid, while you absorb life and bleed your purpose, so you can burn the words in the mouths of those you despise? and who are they exactly? do they represent the emperor slug, who crawls ontop of you, screaming and pleading at once, for you to obey and be obeyed? what does it matter, when your submission comes without a prize? life is the great equalizer. souls are thinning out, i can feel it, a woman made of salt licks me where i'm injured most and it burns. souls are thinning out and you can feel it too. make me hurt. make me feel. i voice myself, beat, bass guitar, drone, heaviness, mass, because nothing else is allowed to matter. let us walk beneath this incredibly huge grey cloud above us together. cage to my flesh, silent tomb. join me. i am fragment king. i speak, you listen. grey album"

INV031 (C)&(P) Invasion Wreck Chords 2005

DISCOGRAPHY

ALBUMS

• Good Morning W. (vs. AMBASSADOR21) - Invasion Wreck Chords 2006 (INV036)
• The Grey Album - Invasion Wreck Chords 2005 (INV031)
• Simple Things Are Often Monstrous (vs. NEXICON) - Nexialist 2003
• Live At Si - Nexialist 2002
• Vivisection - Architecture Records 2001
• The Cellmaker's Sinister Jazz - Nexialist 2001
• Forensium - Nexialist 2001
• Demo That Exploded - Applied Standard 1998

COMPILATIONS, REMIXES, COLLABORATIONS

• V/A Underground. Invasion & Friends 2k8 - Invasion Wreck Chords 2008
• V/A Elektroanschlag 3 - R-Reger 2007
• V/A Caution! Invasion & Friends 2k7 (DVD) - Invasion Wreck Chords 2007
• V/A Pandora's Box. Invasion & Friends 2k6 - Invasion Wreck Chords 2006
• V/A A-Core - Minor Records 2005
• NTT Love Is Nothing - Annihilvs 2005 (collaboration)
• V/A Spent Decibel Artist Sampler V.1 - Spent Decibel Records 2005
• AMBASSADOR21 - Akcija V1.1 (CD/2x12") - Invasion Wreck Chords / Restroom Records (remix) 2005
• V/A Coup de Grace. Invasion & Friends 2k5 - Invasion Wreck Chords
• V/A Sonic-Arts Inspiration - Liquid Harsh Prods. 2004
• V/A The Scariest Weapon:1 - Invasion Wreck Chords 2004
• NTT The Arrow And The Wound - Eibon Records 2004 (collaboration)
• V/A Sidetracked 2LP - Mode Of Proof 2004
• V/A noizzze! just do it. invasion & friends 2k4 2CD - Invasion Wreck Chords 2004
• NTT Dripping With The Power Of Her Flesh - Immanence Records 2003 (collaboration)
• PNEUMATIC DETACH - Paresis - Hive Records (remix) 2003
• V/A Tribute To Godflesh 2CD - N.H. Records 2003
• V/A Kappa - Megahertz 2002
• V/A Halforganic - Nexialist 2001
• V/A Cities & Seasons - Deiker Records 1999