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Brighter Death Now

Real Name:
Roger Karmanik
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Brighter Death Now is the personal project of Roger Karmanik, founder of Cold Meat Industry. It is one of the most extreme industrial noise act on the scene, assaulting the listener with monstrous cacophonies and uncompromising walls of noise. The imagery of BDN's releases largely employs skulls, bones, corpses, death and decay. Still Karmanik never lacks to show the dark humorous side of his personality.
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Discography

Releases:
Temp Tations (Cass, Ltd, Album)   Börft Records 1989
Great Death (2 versions)   Cold Meat Industry 1990
Pain In Progress (Album) (2 versions)   Unclean Production ... 1990
Slaughterhouse Invitation (2 versions)   Sound Source ... 1991
Great Death (2xCD, Ltd + Box, Ltd)   Cold Meat Industry 1994
Necrose Evangelicum (Album) (3 versions)   Cold Meat Industry 1995
Great Death III (CD, Ltd)   Cold Meat Industry 1996
Innerwar (Album) (3 versions)   Cold Meat Industry ... 1996
No Salvation / No Tomorrow (2 versions)   Anarchy + Violence 1996
Nordvinterdöd (7", Pic, Ltd)   Pain In Progress 1996
Greatest Death (2 versions)   Cold Meat Industry 1998
May All Be Dead (Album) (4 versions)   Cold Meat Industry 1998
Untitled (7", Ltd)   Xn Recordings 1999
Obsessis (Album) (3 versions)   Cold Meat Industry 2000
1890 (LP, Ltd)   Cold Meat Industry 2001
Proceeded In Death (12")   Jinx 2001
Why (EP) (2 versions)   Jinx 2002
A Celebration Of Misfortune (12", Pic)   Jinx 2003
Nunsploitation (12", Ltd)   Cold Meat Industry 2003
Destroy (CDr)   Anarchy + Violence 2004
Disobey (Hybrid, DualDisc, Enh, Ltd, Dig)   Cold Meat Industry 2005
Feel - Bad (7", Ltd)   Xn Recordings 2005
Kamikaze Kabaret (CD, Album)   Cold Meat Industry 2005
1890 (LP, Ltd, Album)   Cold Meat Industry 2007
Breaking Down Nihil (CD, Album, Ltd)   Der Angriff, Indiestate Distribution 2009
Where Dreams Come True (CD, Album, Ltd)   Cold Meat Industry, Jinx 2009
Tracks Appear On:
Im Krematorium (Cass, Comp, Ltd) Deathkomh Mechanik Cassettes 1988
Debauch (VHS, Ltd) Meat Improvement Cold Meat Industry 1990
Projekt Neue Ordnung (LP, Comp) Serapeum Tesco Organisation 1990
Embellishment Collection 3 (VHS) Deathkomh Börft Records 1991
Many Dogs Are Dumb... (Cass, Album, Ltd) Slugger Tiny Dog 1991
Ohrenschmalz (LP, Ltd) Death Appeal Unclean Production 1991
Festival Of Hard-On Electronics (VHS, PAL, Ltd) Act 1 Of The "Theatre ... Tiny Dog 1992
Heavy Electronics: Two Days Of Agony (VHS) A Di Pocere Tesco Organisation, Art Konkret 1993
Karmanik Collection (CD, Comp) Bites Everything Cold Meat Industry 1993
RRR-100 (Comp) (2 versions) Untitled RRRecords 1993
Vexatio Cerebri (Cass) Grave Cracker Contaminated Productions 1993
Heavy Electronics: Two Days Of Agony (3xCass, Ltd, Comp + Box) A Di Pocere, Certified... Tesco Organisation, Art Konkret 1994
...And Even Wolves Hid Their Teeth And Tongue Wherever Shelter Was Given (Comp) (3 versions) Soul In Flames (Excerpt) Cold Meat Industry ... 1995
Exploration One (CD) Humiliation Body And Blood Exploration 1995
RRR 500 (LP, Comp) Untitled RRRecords 1998
Swedish Electronic Music Awards 1998 (CD, Promo, Ltd) Sweet Baby Eskimo Records 1998
The Absolute Supper (2xCD, Comp) I Wish I Was A Little ... Cold Meat Industry 1998
The Dark Side Of Electronica (Comp) (2 versions) Necrose Evangelicum CAPP 1999
Deadly Actions Live Retrospective 1994-1996 (VHS) Innerwar Nuit Et Brouillard 2001
Flowers Made Of Snow (2xCD) While You Sleep Cold Meat Industry 2004
Cold Meat Industry Live In Australia - Two Evenings Of Delightful Delicacies (DVD, PAL) The Killing Season, In... Cold Meat Industry 2007
Maschinenfest 2009 (Comp) (2 versions) Hunger For Love (Remixed) Pflichtkauf 2009
Unofficial Releases:
Enchain Nil Sin — 10 Minutes In The Mix (File, MP3, P/Unofficial) Slow Death (Slow Mix) Not On Label (2) 2008
Temp Tations (Cass)   Kisk Tyr Tapes  
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Review by thezovietdada Aug 31, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)
A bit of an underrated facet of his work, BDN's best moments seem to revolve around Roger Karmanik's real love for guttural, low-frequency murkiness that still reveals its raw, synthetic or sampled, origins. Usually called his more " dark ambient" work (vs. the vocal agression of Obsessis or Innerwar), this side is seen in full force in his older work with Pain in Progress and the Great Death series. Promotes some real strong subconscious fear all the way. Overall, it's a more effective and long-lasting tactic in my opinion.