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The basic processes involved in manufacturing a record have hardly altered from the fifties to the present day''. (1) The History Of Rock, issue 14, Volume 2 page 128.

FK Alexander and two Scottish Hardcore bands meet in Glasgows Queen Margret Union to duke it out in a heavy metal technology demolition sound clash death match over 3 hours, where pointless resentment, pink smoke and the faces of your favourite rock stars n' rapists fill the air!!!

destruction as a way of holding resentment
waste as a way of celebrating regret
volume as a means of cherishing violence
Decay is the light in the tunnel
Drilling down and out

Beginning its thinking with the 30 year old essay 'The Problem With Music' by record producer Steve Albini, this work is upset by the industrial disintegration of a disintegrating industry, The History Of Rock (tm) and the systems and stories it has sold. Crossing this reference with Mathew Barney's 'The Order' and situating it all in the artistic market place in 2023, FK is tasked with an existential end-game, destined to lose but compelled to play.

CDs, TVS, computers, trophies, pristine music encyclopaedias and more will meet the guillotine, the hammer or the wall, while old school death metal serenades.

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