The Angelic Process

Yeah, this has been confirmed. Sad news...

What an incredible band they were.

Maybe ned will change the thread title now.
What an incredible band they were.
Indeed.

His music will always be with us. RIP Kris.

As others have said, really sad news. Totally great band. Time to give 'Weighing Souls...' a listen.

ugh, very sad. Figures. The ONE current metal band I unreservedly adore.

I can't remember the last time I was so blindsided by an album from a band I knew absolutely nothing about like I was with Weighing Souls last year. What an eye-opener that was.

Such extraordinary talent.

This is indeed all very depressing.

Is there a link to a specific confirmation anywhere?

No official press release or anything, but when I asked Chris at Profound Lore today, he confirmed it.

It doesn't look like anyone knows too much about what exactly happened yet, but apparently suicide isn't being ruled out.

Oof. If it is, that just makes the message I started this thread with all the more tragic.

It just reminds me a bit of Jason DiEmilio's passing.

you going to change the thread title?

I don't think I have the abilities to do that. Will ask.

I thought you could as a mod.
To think upthread I hoped they could make another album in a few years.
His partner in the band was also his life partner so my thoughts are with her. Hope she can come through this.

this is terrible news:-( angelic process were great. RIP.

I can't remember the last time I was so blindsided by an album from a band I knew absolutely nothing about like I was with Weighing Souls last year.

Exactly! I'm hoping there's some sick hoax behind the announcement.

dont think so, if you look at last fm some people knew on tuesday. The rumours wouldve been rebuked by now.

fucking hell. as with so many bands loved/recommended by the usual suspects (ie several of the posters on this thread), they're sitting on my ever-growing list of things to check out. wish i'd got to it a little sooner now.

this is fucking bleak, really. RIP.

The last sentence of the initial post of neds really just hit home

This is the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life. It feels like a part of me is dying. I am sorry to everyone who loves this band as much a we do. I'm sorry to everyone who will never see us play live. I'm sorry to everyone...

What a great band they were :(

What a great band and what makes this so sad is they were just starting to get some recognition.

Heartbreaking message posted on MySpace by MDragynfly...worst fears confirmed.

Goodbye Kris

I have not posted sooner about this because my oldest daughter was out of state and I was not about to tell her over the phone, or right before her finals started. She frequents my myspace page and anything that I said here would have been picked up by her immediately. I am thankful that she understands my reasons for waiting to tell her so we can grieve together. We are both so private about these things where we are outgoing in every other respect.

I am not prepared to rip open my heart on myspace for everyone to see. I have shared anger and joy here but this devastation is my own and I am sorry for anyone who might feel slighted by that or my wish to not talk about it. I deal with it the best way I can and in whatever increments I am able to and still make it to the next day.

At the end of April my husband Kris committed suicide. There are many things that I can see might have led up to the extremely depressed state that he was in at the end. Kris was on tetracycline for acne for many years, at 2000mg a day. When he and I had been together for about 6 months he decided to stop taking it because it was making his stomach hurt. After such a long term treatment of antibiotics his immune system was compromised and from that time on he stayed sick constantly, especially with food sensitivities. Many times he would just vomit until he was completely dehydrated and we'd have to take him to the hospital to be put on an IV. Nothing we tried seemed to help recover his health. Vitamins, candida cleanse, diet change, immune system boosters.

You all know Kris was a musician, an amazing guitarist. He lived and breathed the music and was known to lock himself in the studio for days with no food or sleep. Years ago Kris broke his hand in a car accident... shattered it. He had to have pins in it and some extensive physical therapy to even be able to use it, much less be able to play guitar. He did recover though and gritted his way through the pain until he was able to play again. He had such an amazing music career and such wonderful dedicated friends and fans that were moved by his work. He had no hobbies, no other real interests. His world was me, my 2 daughters, and the music. He was dedicated to all so completely. Last summer Kris re-broke his hand, and from the way his hand was before there was no such thing as a minor break and the only way to even hope for getting it to heal cleanly was more surgery and probably much more physical therapy. He didn't want to go through it again and seemed to have some hope for a while that after the pain stopped maybe he could just work his way back up to being able to play again.

For almost a year he had not touched an instrument. A couple months before he died he started playing again but instead of it giving him some peace as I had hoped it would he was frustrated and dissatisfied with what he was writing. I tried so hard to encourage him and assure him that he was just getting back into it and he just had to let his hand find its place again but I think it was his mind and heart that weren't the same. The music he was writing was different. I thought it was very good but to him it wasn't The Angelic Process so it was substandard. That's when the depression seemed to kick into high gear. Kris had always been clinically depressed and even suicidal for years with multiple attempts and plans. He told me when we got together that I had saved his life because before we met he had been days away from ending it all. That was really the last time he directly talked to me about suicide. In the end he was just locking himself away in the studio or completely passed out asleep. The music meant so much to him and he wanted so badly for it to feel the same. Unfortunately I started missing him before he was even gone. I was so sure he was going to pull out of it like he had before... just another roller coaster ride and things would start looking up.

I've said enough now. It is incredibly difficult to share this. We had such a happy beginning and even through the subsequent cycles he went through we were so much in love with each other. I will love and miss him for the rest of my life.

that is so fucking sad. :-( RIP.

shit, that has to be the saddest thing I've read in ages. rip indeed.

damn. that's crushing.

Sux beyond words. I'm gutted.

RIP

Christ I know nothing about this band but that made me tear up like nothing else, it hits so close to home having a partner to whom guitar playing is his life. I feel for her so fucking much.

If you actually hear the music it gets even sadder. Stuff is of beautiful obsession. Hopefully it'll get discovered by a wider audience at some point and they'll get their dues.

I only heard the album after Ned's initial post, but yeah, horribly heartbreaking

nothing i can say that hasn't been said. just terrible. thank you, kris, for the music you made.

Oh shit! There's really nothing else to say. Thanks for the great music.

it is sad that we won't get to hear him evolve even more as an artist, but of course the real tragedy is those he left behind. RIP, and best wishes to those who knew him.

Oddly enough I found a copy of Coma Waering in the clearance section at Amoeba SF. Two bucks or something similar.

Funny, I noticed a $2.99 copy of this album last week in a local shop. Going back to poke around this afternoon. Worth picking up, I take it, if I'm generally into stuff along the Nadja/Jesu axis?

I think they also had Weighing Souls with Sand for, like, $5.99 or something.

I still harbor some guilt for passing on them as booking clients. They were after me and I really liked them... :(

Burning World Records is extremely proud to announce the re-issue of The Angelic Process album Coma Waering on cd, and for the first time ever on LP. Coma Waering was first released on Paradigms Records in 2006 on cd, but was never released on vinyl. Our sublabel Roadburn Records already released the last The Angelic Process Album Weighing Souls With Sand on double vinyl back in 2007.

Some review quotes for the album at the time:

“The Angelic Process are (or sadly, were) the best band in the world, ever, for all time. Coma Waering, while a bit more inconsistent, is better then their (simliarly amazing) final album Weighing Souls With Sand. Lower lows (if you can call them that), but higher highs.” (Heathen Harvest)

“The Angelic Process does not create complicated music. Listeners looking for technicality or flashy time signatures can look elsewhere. What the band strives for is to convey as much emotion as possible in the simplest of song structures. From multiple listens of Coma Waering it can be concluded that they succeed on all counts. Coma Waering stifles the listener with wave after wave of heavily distorted bass coupled with memorable chord changes and intelligent synth arrangements.” (Sputnikmusic.com)

We simply think it’s one of the best albums ever made and we are proud to release it on our label.

With the release also comes new artwork, made by Mories of Gnaw Their Tongues. Find the front sleeve below
http://www.roadburnrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/TAP-front-sleeve-jpg-klein.jpg

The album will be available on cd on June 15th 2012, the vinyl on July 1st 2012.

pre-orders are now up
http://www.roadburnrecords.com/2012/05/30/preorder-angelic-process-coma-waering-cd-vinyl-tshirt-included/

And I was just thinking about them the other day. Fortuitous.

i have all their releases but so glad this ones coming out on vinyl plus i get a tshirt too! woohoo.

i'd never heard of this band before but i'm really loving the samples i'm hearing on youtube. what a sad story :(

Every time I hear this band...sheer devastation. It only gets better with age.

http://www.roadburnrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/CW-T-shirt-design.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9AhPTKnbVU

A quick check through discogs.com reveals an album I had never heard about, Solipsistic. Anyone have that?

Huh. I've never heard of it either.

no

http://www.discogs.com/Angelic-Process-Solipsistic/release/2966672

This disc features the album Solipsistic that was never officially released by the band, but which was issued in a very small run that was sent to a handful of labels and associates of the band.
The disc is packaged simply in a jewelcase with a very simple printed cover that just has the track listing, title, and catalog number.

1 Mouvement - Prepare To Evacuate Soul 0:37
2 Solipsistic 5:49
3 Deep Calls To Deep 6:37
4 Tragedy De' Ovair 6:48
5 Mouvement - Sympathy Interrupts My Blood 1:22
6 My Blood Still Whispers 1:26
7 Dismembered Antonella 7:09
8 Mouvement - Crippled Healing 3:22
9 Missing The Space Around You 6:43
10 Nothing But Self Exists 3:59
11 Mouvement - Solipsistic Darkness 0:35
12 Consciousness (Showered In Afterwhile) 3:47
13 Self Portrait In Water 8:41

huh x2. Not surprised I've never heard it. Looks like some of it's up on youtube.

Still miss this band. Truly lost legends. Relistening to Coma Waering now.

Wanted. DUMPYS RUSTY NUTS: 'somewhere in England'. And THE CHEATERS: sweat it out!

I had completely missed that a full box set of their work came out last month

https://burningworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/we-all-die-laughing-box-set