RIP K.Angylus, The Angelic Process

Word has been trickling out - K.Angylus, of the husband-and-wife duo The Angelic Process, passed away in late April. No official cause of death has been announced. The final Angelic Process record was the mammoth Weighing Souls With Sand, which ironically was about coping with a spouse's death. Last year, Angylus suffered a hand injury which rendered him unable to play music, and The Angelic Process went on hold indefinitely in October.

Million Year Summer

I will always associate Weighing with sickness, for different reasons. Last year I visited some friends in Texas, one of whom suffered acute food poisoning. He was retching his soul out next door, and I was trying to sleep. I put on Weighing in my headphones, turned up the volume, and was immediately bathed in a surreal, electric world in which My Bloody Valentine morphed into Neurosis. Weighing is, in a good way, one of the most grotesque-sounding records I've ever heard. It's compressed beyond belief and the guitars seemingly come from a volcano. Drums strain to punch through the din; Angylus' voice fights for its life. Few swan songs have been so passionate.