Self Hypnosis, a collaboration of musicians Kris Clayton (Camel Of Doom, ex-Esoteric), Greg Chandler (Esoteric, Lychgate) and Thomas Vallely (Lychgate, Macabre Omen, Omega Centuri), reveal details for their debut album Contagion Of Despair, due on 21st August, 2020 by Svart Records. The first track from the effort, "Contagion", can be listened below. The 78-minute long record was written and produced by Kris Clayton. Engineered, mixed and mastered by Greg Chandler and Kris Clayton at Priory Recording Studios.

States the band: "Surprisingly, "Contagion" is not a response to the current COVID-19 crisis, having been written in mid 2018, but rather a case of observation that has become accidental prescience. The song serves as an introduction to the themes found throughout Contagion Of Despair, a hate letter to the ever increasing tendency for the media to no longer be a source of information, choosing profiteering over accuracy with ever more sensationalist stories coming from all angles at all times. Ironically, as a real contagion spreads throughout the world, once again the press ensure at all times that they create an atmosphere of fear and misery. The album as a whole examines various aspects of the constant war on happiness, divisive tactics and general narrative of despair that is now endemic in our society. Who benefits from this situation? Who thrives on human misery?"

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