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Ragbar - A Shadow To The World

from Outbreak: Vol. 2 by Contagion Collective

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PROJECT CODE NAME: RAGBAR

STATUS: ACTIVE

LOCATION: SOMEWHERE BEHIND ENEMY LINES

SOUNDS LIKE: THIRD WORLD APOCALYPSE

THREAT ASSESSMENT: PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS OF THE AVAILABLE FILES INDICATE THAT RAGBAR IS THE BRAINCHILD OF THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST AFSHIN (AL-MODIR). THE PRECISE ORIGINS OF THE PROJECT ARE UNKNOWN.

HOWEVER, EXTRAPOLATION OF THE EXISTING DATA INDICATES THAT AFTER A NUMBER OF FAILED ATTEMPTS TO INFILTRATE OTHER BANDS, FOLLOWED BY A LENGTHY PERIOD OF EXPERIMENTATION AND OPTIMIZATION, AFSHIN ACTIVATED THE RAGBAR PROJECT SOMETIME IN 2022 A.D. IN OUR CURRENT TIMELINE.

TO THE UNINITIATED, RAGBAR APPEARS AS A BARELY FUNCTIONING OBSCURE MUSIC PROJECT WITH A SOUND REMINISCENT OF THE ABRASIVE GUITAR DRIVEN INDUSTRIAL METAL ASSOCIATED WITH BANDS SUCH AS MINISTRY, KMFDM, SKREW, RAMMSTEIN, DISCORDIA, AND KILLING JOKE.

HOWEVER, EXECUTING ADVANCED DIAGNOSTIC ALGORHITHMS DURING INTEL GATHERING MISSIONS HAS EXPOSED RAGBAR AS A VESSEL FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF THE TRANSGRESSIVE AND INCENDIARY SOCIO-POLITICAL COMMENTARY OF THE PROJECT’S FOUNDER WHOSE DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR, SINGLE MINDED ZEAL, AND UNCOMPROMISING VISION HAS KEPT THE PROJECT IN AN OPERATIONAL STATE IN A HOSTILE POST-APOCALYPTIC CULTURAL WASTELAND.

WHILE THE PRECISE PARAMETERS OF RAGBAR’S MISSION OBJECTIVE REMAINS UNDEFINED, IT IS SUSPECTED TO BE A MILITANT ENTITY IN PURSUIT OF AN ANTI-TOTALITARIAN AGENDA. OUR SENSORS HAVE DECODED SUBLIMINAL MESSAGING AND HIDDEN PSYCHO-SOCIAL SUBVERSION SIGNALS EMBEDDED DEEP WITHIN THE CACOPHONY OF NOISE CONTAINED IN RAGBAR’S “MUSIC”. AS SUCH, ALL PERSONNEL ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROJECT ARE TO BE DESIGNATED AS PERSISTENT THREAT AGENTS AND MARKED FOR TERMINATION.

PRESENTLY RAGBAR HAS A REDUCED CAPACITY TO ACT IN THE PURSUIT OF ITS FOUNDER’S VISION AS IT OPERATES AS A ONE-MAN PROJECT IN SEARCH OF OTHER RECRUITS. HOWEVER, THE RECRUITMENT OF ADDITIONAL LIKE-MINDED PERSONNEL WOULD BOLSTER THE GROUP’S DESTRUCTIVE CAPABILITIES AND ALLOW THEM TO UNDERMINE THE AESTHETIC COHESION OF OUR METICULOUSLY CONSTRUCTED DYSTOPIA. THEREFORE, ALL MEASURES MUST BE TAKEN TO PREVENT RAGBAR FROM GROWING AND ESTABLISHING AN OUTPOST FROM WHICH TO WAGE CULTURAL WARFARE AGAINST UNSUSPECTING CITIZENS.

From the single, "A Shadow To The World".
Originally released July 2022.
ragbar.bandcamp.com/track/a-shadow-to-the-world

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from Outbreak: Vol. 2, released July 22, 2023
Written by RAGBAR
Mixed by Afshin (Al Modir) of RAGBAR and Chris Themelco of Monolith Studios
Mastered by Chris Themelco of Monolith Studios
© RAGBAR 2022
Under non-exclusive licence to Viral Records Australia

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Contagion Collective is a community of independent Australian alternative artists, working as an aggregate and supporting each other through the 'new normal'.

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