Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
With the release of Black Magnet’s debut album ‘Hallucination Scene’ in 2020 a new Industrial Metal power emerged from the unlikely landscape of Oklahoma City. After anxiously waiting out the pandemic Black Magnet returned to the road in late 2021 and has now dropped ‘Body Prophecy’ the second full-length burst of machine-driven mayhem and electronic deviance.
On ‘Body Prophecy’ mastermind, James Hammontree welds the frenetic vitality of post-punk and metal energy with driving synthetic club beats, factory force physicality, and alluringly stark melodic pulses. Tracks like ‘Floating in Nothing’ and ‘Violent Mechanix’ feature both intensely catchy hooks and hammering brutal noise. ‘Sold Me Sad’ is a quietly deranged lullaby that takes an atmospheric turn. The throbbing drug-addled lurch of the Manson / Reznor-esque ‘Incubate’ is, at the end of the album, treated to a completely re-imagined and extended club-style remix by scene legend Justin K. Broadrick (Godflesh, Zonal, etc).
For all its harsher, scraping atmospheres and pummeling aggression ‘Body Prophecy’ always remains an eminently tight, memorable album molded for the stage and constructed to keep bodies in motion and listeners transfixed.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
How The Kybalion impacted James’s life/creative practice
Hermeticism and the 7 Hermetic principles
Folklore behind “Ring Around The Rosie”
Draxler’s visual contribution to Black Magnet’s newest album “Body Prophecy”
Recording “Body Prophecy” during the early stages of the pandemic
James working with Justin K Broadrick
Suffering through challenging material to grow one’s creative perspective
Looking past genres to develop a deeper relationship with artworks
Tapping into your highest vibration, frequency, and energy
Creating art with absolute honesty
Embracing the paradox
Transforming negative outlooks into positive perspectives
“The Pregnant Void” in Taoism
Artists / People Mentioned:
Salvador Dalí (Surrealist Painter)
Francis Bacon (Painter)
Max Ernst (Surrealist Painter)
Mitch Horowitz (Author / Occult Historian)
Jay Cheel (Director)
Andrei Tarkovsky (Director)
Alejandro Jodorosky (Director)
David Lynch (Director)
Alan Watts (Writer)
Bands / Musicians Mentioned:
Justin K. Broadrick
Godflesh
Jesu
Vatican Shadow
Killing Joke
The Birthday Party
Big Black
Meshuggah
Blood Incantation
Greg Puciato
Books Mentioned:
The Kybalion
The Lord of the Rings
The Occult: A History
Man, Myth, and Magic Series
The Hellbound Heart
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Films / TV Series Mentioned:
Midsommar
Cursed Films
Serpent and the Rainbow
Twilight Zone Movie
The Birds
The Exorcist
Poltergeist
Stalker
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Hereditary
The Witch
The Crow
The Wizard of OZ
Weeds
Hellraiser
blckmgnt.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/bl4ckm4gnet
Artist Decoded Patreon: patreon.com/artistdecoded
Originally Posted 11.8.2022
With the release of Black Magnet’s debut album ‘Hallucination Scene’ in 2020 a new Industrial Metal power emerged from the unlikely landscape of Oklahoma City. After anxiously waiting out the pandemic Black Magnet returned to the road in late 2021 and has now dropped ‘Body Prophecy’ the second full-length burst of machine-driven mayhem and electronic deviance.
On ‘Body Prophecy’ mastermind, James Hammontree welds the frenetic vitality of post-punk and metal energy with driving synthetic club beats, factory force physicality, and alluringly stark melodic pulses. Tracks like ‘Floating in Nothing’ and ‘Violent Mechanix’ feature both intensely catchy hooks and hammering brutal noise. ‘Sold Me Sad’ is a quietly deranged lullaby that takes an atmospheric turn. The throbbing drug-addled lurch of the Manson / Reznor-esque ‘Incubate’ is, at the end of the album, treated to a completely re-imagined and extended club-style remix by scene legend Justin K. Broadrick (Godflesh, Zonal, etc).
For all its harsher, scraping atmospheres and pummeling aggression ‘Body Prophecy’ always remains an eminently tight, memorable album molded for the stage and constructed to keep bodies in motion and listeners transfixed.
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
How The Kybalion impacted James’s life/creative practice
Hermeticism and the 7 Hermetic principles
Folklore behind “Ring Around The Rosie”
Draxler’s visual contribution to Black Magnet’s newest album “Body Prophecy”
Recording “Body Prophecy” during the early stages of the pandemic
James working with Justin K Broadrick
Suffering through challenging material to grow one’s creative perspective
Looking past genres to develop a deeper relationship with artworks
Tapping into your highest vibration, frequency, and energy
Creating art with absolute honesty
Embracing the paradox
Transforming negative outlooks into positive perspectives
“The Pregnant Void” in Taoism
Artists / People Mentioned:
Salvador Dalí (Surrealist Painter)
Francis Bacon (Painter)
Max Ernst (Surrealist Painter)
Mitch Horowitz (Author / Occult Historian)
Jay Cheel (Director)
Andrei Tarkovsky (Director)
Alejandro Jodorosky (Director)
David Lynch (Director)
Alan Watts (Writer)
Bands / Musicians Mentioned:
Justin K. Broadrick
Godflesh
Jesu
Vatican Shadow
Killing Joke
The Birthday Party
Big Black
Meshuggah
Blood Incantation
Greg Puciato
Books Mentioned:
The Kybalion
The Lord of the Rings
The Occult: A History
Man, Myth, and Magic Series
The Hellbound Heart
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Films / TV Series Mentioned:
Midsommar
Cursed Films
Serpent and the Rainbow
Twilight Zone Movie
The Birds
The Exorcist
Poltergeist
Stalker
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Hereditary
The Witch
The Crow
The Wizard of OZ
Weeds
Hellraiser
blckmgnt.bandcamp.com
instagram.com/bl4ckm4gnet
Artist Decoded Patreon: patreon.com/artistdecoded
Originally Posted 11.8.2022
