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New Shiv-r EP announced! Containing 4 new tracks, 4 remixes and a new “Director’s Cut” of our filmclip “The End”.

Head to www.deathwatchasia.com now to pre-order - only 1,000JPY (around 8.00EUR) incl. worldwide shipping!

“Incision” is the new full-length EP from Australian dark electro sensation SHIV-R, released by DWA/Infacted Recordings on December 10th to coincide with the Australian leg of COMBICHRIST’s “Monsters On Tour” – for which SHIV-R is the official tour support act!

Australian duo SHIV-R is one of THE new acts of the moment:

- one of the headliners of Australia’s largest underground music festival “Under The Blue Moon” in Sydney on October 30th (along with VLRK from fellow DWA/Infacted actGRENDEL)

- guest vocalist on the new REAPER single “Dirty Cash” (currently #9 in the German Alternative Chart/DAC)

- tour support for COMBICHRIST in Australia

“Incision” is SHIV-R’s first new material since the band announced their arrival on the dark electro scene earlier this year with the breathtakingly-powerful debut album “Hold My Hand” (DWA/Infacted: DWA111).
Combining solid club beats with eerie soundscapes, the quality and powerful production of “Hold My Hand” instantly established SHIV-R as one of the top new talents in the dark electro genre: leading legendary artist/producer Kolja Trelle (SOMAN) to comment
“SHIV-R is one of the very few newcomer projects delivering true quality”.

Mastered by Kolja Trelle himself, “Incision” features

- 4 brand new songs - including “Zeitgeist” made in collaboration with Greek electro act PREEMPTIVE STRIKE 0.1 (Infacted/Metropolis)

- 4 remixes: DETROIT DIESEL’s version of “Open My Vein” – currently also featured on the latest edition of the best-selling electro-compilation series “Advanced Electronics” (Synthetic Symphony) - BE MY ENEMY: side-project of legendary UK industrial act CUBANATE, plus individual interpretations of the title track from SHIV-R’s own Virul3nt and Kong

- All-new uncensored “Director’s Cut” of the music video for “The End”

Title track “Incision” upgrades SHIV-R’s sonic arsenal with an entirely new musical weapon for the dancefloor: slower, heavier than anything previously heard on “Hold My Hand”, “Incision” fuses depth-charge PRODIGY-style drumbeats with heavy guitar riffs, and a low vocal delivery reminiscent in places of MARILYN MANSON.

SHIV-R then up the tempo for both “Zeitgeist” – the product of a meeting of minds with fellow electro-industrial act PREEMPTIVE STRIKE 0.1 – and “Dead Eyes”: taking the club-friendly sound debuted so successfully on “Hold My Hand” and twisting it into 2 new instant club hits, before descending into the dark atmosphere that is “Hacker”.

And in addition to the 4 remixes that follow, rounding out the EP is a full UNCUT version of the controversial music video for “The End” - never before available on disc!

The “Incision” EP is presented in jewelcase, with 4-page gatefold booklet, in a strictly limited edition of 500 copies only worldwide between DWA and Infacted Recordings: a European edition of 300, and Japanese edition of 200!
Both editions are numbered and feature slightly different artwork from Kallisti Design(NACHTMAHR, DETROIT DIESEL, REAXION GUERRILLA, BE MY ENEMY)!

The DWA Japanese Limited Edition of ‘Incision’ will be released in Japan on December 10th 2010, priced at the special low introductory price of just 1,000 JPY (about 8,00EUR).
Pre-ordered copies will ship around November 26th 2010.
Pre-order inclusive of FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING is open now.