The End of Their World Is Coming!

“The End of Their World is Coming!” is the debut album by Ryan Mahan (ALGIERS, Nun Gun). Set and recorded in the deep woods of Southern Appalachia and in the burning streets of Atlanta 2020, “The End of Their World is Coming!” chronicles a series of last rites rituals to the grotesque and decomposed corpse politic of the USA and its colonies. The record channels weird and eerie fiction, anti-capitalist theoretics and decolonial hauntology into a different form of ghost storytelling, a mostly wordless anti-fascist occult body music in the service of planetary liberation. It takes its inspiration from the spectral electronics of Wendy Carlos and Caroline K, the grisly boom bap of Havoc/Prodigy and Geto Boys, the punk machinations of Screamers and Big Black, the mutant doom dub of Scientist and Jah Shaka and slivers of EBM, techno, noise and horror soundtracks. The record is accompanied by a collection of artworks by Ukraine-based artist Oksana Demidova, depicting a large bestiary of eerie happenings, liberation ideologies, millenarian promises and infernal returns.