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‘I Am The God Of Hellfire’ by Bong-Ra

Release date 28 November 2005 (Very Friendly)

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1.01 Skool Ov Violence
1.02 Redrum
1.03 Go Tiger!
1.04 White Horse Come Soon
1.05 Bert Is Evil
1.06 The Claw
1.07 Crack In The Mirror
1.08 Pop That Cristal
1.09 Chump Chump
1.10 Kill The Sound
1.11 Serpent Tongue For The Blues
1.12 Come Out To Play

Like the Devil playing the harp to unknowing angels, it's become clear that every new Bong-Ra release manages to trick and tackle his listeners by taking groundbreaking new steps. There's no time for repetition or conformity, but a continous exploration into the sounds and styles which fascinate him most, flirting with jungle, rave, metal, dancehall and gabba, in no particular order…sounding like a meatgrinder negligent of hygiene, sterility or infection.

One of the forerunners in the Breakcore genre, which is rapidly breaking out of the undergound, reaching a point where sampling combined with a diverse musical taste have fused to create the ultimate hardcore-maniac's playlist. On I am the God of Hellfire the 'amen' has been given a well deserved break, and focus has been put on Bong-Ra's trademark rave stabs and catchy haunting melodies, proving that downtempo can be as suffocating and sinister as uptempo BPMs.

A host of vocalists, like ex-Atari Teenage Riot's Hanin Elias, Drop The Lime, Mike Redman and Ras Bumpa, have contributed to make this nothing less than an upcoming classic in its genre, the detail in the production has given Bong-Ra's third full length album a mature, accessible sound, creating more space in which to unleash his demonic riffing.

Jason Kohnen, the sonic schizo behind Bong-Ra, brings a new dimension in hardcore breakbeat territory, pitching vocals ruffer than SL2 and dropping heavier kicks than Humanoid… His stubborness and perseverance has led to releases on labels like Djax, Planet-Mu, Ad Noiseam, Supertracks and Deathsucker… to name but a few, remixing Venetian Snares' masterpiece 'Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett', invited to do a John Peel Session in 2001 and running his infamous ragga hardcore jungle label Clash Records and his metalbreaks label Kriss Records.