In Summer 2015, these two industrial music acts from Barcelona decided to join their forces to produce a series of songs specifically conceived to be played for first and last time during the third edition of Cønjuntø Vacíø festival. Formed in 2015, CADENA is a three-piece combo refreshing the hardcore punk and industrial rock traditions, and distilling them into a saturated and contemporary sound that is close to the most plastic-like noise rock. COÀGUL is the single-member project of an unclassifiable character who, from 2009 onwards has been taking back the rythm'n'noise sound of Esplendor Geometrico-like acts, translating it into a certain lyrical drive that brings him closer to the lands of folk music rather than those of the noise music into which it's so easy to pigeonhole him. For this occasion, the two acts shaked their hands in their common soils: the obsession for urban space, contemporary dystopia and an active nihilism that connects the suburbs with cosmos. From the work done were born seven songs that were firstly played live at the festival —becoming a corrosive experience which, by the means of noise, light and relational performance art, exhausted the senses of the audience and deprogrammed it's behaviour— to be later recorded at the studio in the days after. With lyrics in Catalan, more than an album this is a document that cartographies a contextual micro-particle key to understand the hidden details of Barcelona's hidden reverse. The release of these songs in LP format has been fruit of the cooperative work between four labels: Dead Moon Records, Discos Enfermos, Broca Records and GH Records.

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Review by Discos Enfermos:

As it could not be otherwise the union makes the force; Two of my favorite projects from Barcelona came together to perform 7 songs in a single live show on Conjunto Vacio Fest... and as result of the recording of these songs (in studio) see the light this jewel of the industrial/noise/punk key to understand the Barcelona`s underground these days. Imagine a hybrid between the noise rock bands like CIRCLE X or BRAINBOMBS, the no wave sound of DNA or THEORETICAL GIRLS, the simplicity and rawness of the first references of CRASS records to which is added the piercing harsh/noise/industrial music of COAGUL converting his sound experimentations in the new popular song. Limited to 285 copy.

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Review by Sorry State Records:

Collaborative LP from these two Basque artists who have released material individually on Discos Enfermos before. While that label is pretty eclectic (not to mention underrated!), Coagul & Cadena seems like something different even for them. This isn't guitar-based music, but it does have all of the attitude and aggression of the more hardcore releases that the label is known for. I'm reminded quite a bit of early S.P.K. when I listen to this LP, though I'm sure someone with a deeper knowledge of industrial and proto-industrial music could probably pinpoint a more accurate comparison. It's certainly denser and more propulsive than, say, Throbbing Gristle, incorporating the energy and the occasional pop hooks of something like the Normal into an altogether busier and more terrifying sound. I remember my freshman year of college that my then-girlfriend had a goth roommate who listened to industrial music constantly, and my girlfriend complained that all of the music just sounded like airplanes taking off. That goth roommate would probably really like Coagul & Cadena, and I have to admit so do I.