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Stills from the "SPORUS / NORILLAG - Dolls" experimental film.

"Every piece of discarded metal or material carries within its own unique wealth of history; the history of all who have passed through its making. They are always listening to their encompassing world, these metals and materials are rich in experience. When a piece's strength is sprung into motion, when it is struck, its resonance and texture speak its stories. The rhythms of each striking motion in percussive form evoke this attribute of itself. When it sings its cold resonance we must listen, interpret, and understand what it has to tell us."

LET SPORUS TREMBLE—"WHAT, THAT THING OF SILK, SPORUS, THAT MERE WHITE CURD OF ASS'S MILK? SATIRE OR SENSE, ALAS! CAN SPORUS FEEL? WHO BREAKS A BUTTERFLY UPON A WHEEL?"

"Witness our worship of this pulsating ontology: The union of death in absolute resonance"

Our logo, compared with duplicates of actual prisoner/labourer tattoos for the Norilsk Corrective Labour Camp – or simply, Norillag. This Gulag was established in 1935 in the Soviet Union to handle the construction and subsequent operation of nickel mines and refineries for the Norilsk region. It was closed in 1957.

Interview conducted for the underground black metal zine Boneyard Vol. 2 sometime in 2019, during the beginning stages of writing and recording the "Stories From the Resonance of Steel" cassette EP.