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Artist
Nader Sadek
12+ albums
death metalTechnical Death MetalBrutal Death Metalmetalamerican
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Nader Sadek is a death metal project by Nader Sadek, most famous for designing Mayhem's 2009 stage imagery. He has teamed with: Rune "Blasphemer" Erikson (Ex-Mayhem, Aura Noir, Ava Inferi) - Guitars Steve Tucker (Morbid Angel) - Vocals Flo Mounier (Cryptopsy) - Drums Novy (Ex-Vader, Ex-Behemoth) - Bass Sean Frey - Guitars Nader Sadek invites you on a journey to the depths of the earth, where substances of a repulsive nature dwell. Beneath the earth’s crust, over millions of years creatures have disintegrated and decayed until taking on ghastly new life as petroleum. Like a return of the undead, petroleum and its derivates have wrought cross-cultural conflict, environmental pollution, and economic distress. With a visual and aural assault, Sadek's new work "In The Flesh" re-interprets petroleum's sinister insinuation into our everyday lives. Nine songs and a series of original drawings video works explore several aspects of the commodified resource we find ourselves fatally dependent on. "In the Flesh" exploits the sonic links between death metal and gasoline-dependent heavy machinery such as automobile and airplane engines. These links shaped the process of musical composition itself: The album opener, "Petrophilia", kicks in with a sound evoking an engine starting up. Another song, "Of This Flesh (novus deus)", follows the sonic structure of a car shifting gears. While continuing to link musical composition to mechanical transformations, other songs depart from engine-bas
