Lord Spikeheart

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Lord Spikeheart

Dedicated to his iconic grandmother Muthoni wa Kirima, the only woman to earn the rank of Field Marshal during Kenya's Mau Mau uprising against British colonists, Lord Spikeheart's long-awaited solo debut 'The Adept' is an album that seethes with revolutionary energy. He's a unique vocalist and enigmatic storyteller who's found his niche in the space between genres, freely mangling elements of death metal and grindcore with rap, mystical folkloric incantations and ear-splitting techno in his unrelenting search for peak sonic intensity. Screaming, growling and rhyming in Kikuyu, Kiswahili and English, he cuts an idiosyncratic shape into the cultural landscape, shining a spotlight on the African continent's hardest, heaviest music.


Lord Spikeheart has been co-curated by Berlin Atonal, as part of a collaborative curation supported by TIMES (The Independent Movement for Electronic Scenes).

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