Monday, August 25, 2025

397: Abhorrent Expanse

Dreams of Consciousness Podcast Episode 397 features an interview with Brian Courage and Erik Fratzke of Abhorrent Expanse.

[cover photo by Pemalyn Hessing]

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Abhorrent Expanse are a quartet who use their shared improvisational, jazz and classical backgrounds to create music that encompasses metal, jazz, and ambient/experimental music.

I spoke with multi-instrumentalists Brian Courage and Erik Fratzke about what brought them together, and whether they knew beforehand what the result of their first recorded session would be. We also discussed whether the mixing sessions for their first album led to a clearer idea for their second record Enter the Misanthropocene, and who their intended audience is.

My thanks again to Brian and Erik for speaking with me, and to you for listening.


Music In This Episode:


"Annihilation Operators" (excerpt)
"Frost Suffocation"
taken from the album Gateways to Resplendence

"Assail the Density Matrix"
"Crystal Proliferation in Subharmonic Space"
"Dissonant Aggressors"
taken from the album Enter the Misanthropocene


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Stream/Buy Enter the Misanthropocene [Amalgam Music Webshop]


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