It is perhaps a fanbase as dark and mysterious as the Antiochean’s, the album itself revolves around. Fans of Have A Nice Life exhibit both cultic thought and action for good reason.
Deathconsciousness feels more fresh and engaging with every listen and has held up as a remarkable piece of art. The album is rhythmic, primal and expansive and is a gloomy-post-punk masterpiece a mediation on death, loss and unrequited love. im not even one to say that about vinyl, but this just has another layer.
Have a nice life vinyl update#
update - sampled it while spinning and it legit sounds better than the digital version i have. 7:53 Have A Nice Life - Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000. Blurring the lines between novella, liner notes, and academic text, the zine itself presents an engrossing narrative. Have A Nice Life - A Quick One Before The Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut. The Flenser’s reissue of Deathconsciousness will be accompanied by a 75-page booklet detailing the dark and forgotten history of the Antiochean cult. Have A Nice Life commented, “Working with Flenser lets us keep things comfortable on our end, while also pressing enough copies to actually meet the need and not creating an artificially-inflated collector’s market, as happened with some of our past releases.” Now, longtime HANL collaborator The Flenser will re-issue Deathconsciousness with deluxe packaging, including a lengthy accompanying zine and colored vinyl. The album has since floated in and out of production, with the last instantly out of print vinyl pressing occurring in 2009. The album was originally released by Enemies List Home Recordings founded by HANL members Dan and Tim. Seamlessly blending, with unparalleled depth and weight, shoegaze, post punk, new wave, industrial and noise. Six years after its release the band followed up with 2014′s stunner The Unnatural World, Deathconsciousness has become a force of influence and fanatic obsession.
In 2008, Have A Nice Life released their now cult classic Deathconsciousness LP to a whimper and critical non-interest.