Urstaat - Autophagia (2025) https://urstaat.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/urstaatband Urstaat is a four-piece, #instrumental #post_metal, #sludge band based in Athens, Greece. Drawing from slow-oriented, heavy riffs, atmospheric melodic lines and signature time changes, they attempt to deploy an immersive, auditory experience.

Autophagia statement: "As the 21st century wraps the first quarter of its existence, the world smells like a fuse ready to light up. Neoliberal politics around the globe have shown us once more the primal (8:32) force of capitalist accumulation, further deepening the infiltration of market values and extractivist ethos into every aspect of reality. Mitra-Varuna (6:39), the double face of sovereignty, is grotesquely revealed as the fluctuation between assimilation and elimination of alterity: Misha039 (5:14), a name and a number, is all that remains of the human condition, as our lives become increasingly abstracted in dynamic statistics of urban development projects, or in real-time bio-data harvesting of modern imperialist warfare. Urstaat, the State-as-Idea, or the Idea-as-State, emerges powerful from within as the unnameable fear, the terror suffered under the gaze of the Other (11:07), while police, like spirits, possess the ability to transform someone into no-one and make them disappear. Our bodies are crossed by the geometries of power, marking them as contested territories of social predation and of ritual sacrifice: to devour oneself in order to survive, or autophagia (3:50) as a mode of existence. We must take a stand, name the unnameable, reclaim the world that was stolen from us through the collective action of the multitude, this emerging potentiality of the people that those in power so cynically refer to as the masses, that force of life that shatters the horizon of the impossible, even when it’s suffocatingly confined in a strip of land between the sea and the security fence (8:24)."

Primal 00:00 2. Mitra-Varuna 08:32 3. Misha039 15:11 4. Under the Gaze of the Other 20:25 5. Autophagia 31:32 6. Between the Sea and the Security Fence 35:22

Released by SODEH Records, November 13, 2025 https://www.facebook.com/SodehRecords https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/sodeh-ca-a-r/pl.u-2aoq8yyTk9qeGm

Recorded at Tiny Mess Recordings Mixed and Mastered by Dimitris Misirlis at Matrix Studios Produced by Urstaat and Dimitris Misirlis Graphic Design by Korapilo Collage

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