Calling all metalheads, doomheads, headbangers, thrashers, and other nocturnal creatures! Come join us for a night of apocalyptic angst at The Downstairs! Get ready for an aesthetic journey filled with music, film, food, drinks, and dread. Whether you prefer death, drone, funeral, sludge, stoner, or traditional doom, this event is perfect for you. Grab your friends and head on down to The Downstairs for an unforgettable evening of heavy music! Don't miss out!
7 God is the project of Ithaca-based experimental DJ and conceptual artist Mustafa Seven Ali, founder and creator of Spiel Rein Aesthetic Observatory, Spiel Rein Artists' Collective, and Sign@l To Noise. His eclectic mix of death, drone, funeral, sludge, stoner, and traditional doom metal has been termed KUVEN SLUDGE because of its esoteric occult references and undertones. Inspired by Antoni Maiovvi's Occult Devotional Electronics project, 7 God exists as a means for evoking the Kantian sublime via artistic and spiritual expression. Highlighting heavy bass tones and low frequencies below 100 Hz that reverberate throughout the body, Kuven Sludge is 7 God's spin on EBM--electronic body music--something he refers to as "effraction body music." Situating the body as listening device, this contemporary manifestation of EBM champions the idea of listening with one's entire body rather than just one's ears, thereby emphasizing the sheer physicality of the sub-bass register.
Drawing from the theoretical premises of depressive realism, philosophical pessimism, and Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, the organizers of DOOMSDAY @ The Downstairs acknowledge negative aspects of human existence as essential and innate. The music genuinely delves into realms such as death, suicide, trauma, anxiety, depression, despair, melancholy, loss of self, hopelessness, and other dimensions of suffering. We do not intend to be helpful and efficient in the sense that we do not seek to heal or alleviate suffering. Instead of offering strategies for attaining a happy and successful life, we suggest the art of gracefully enduring the pains of existence and the practice of standing alongside one another amidst that pain. The organizers of DOOMSDAY are not trying to save anyone. We are here for you in the dark night of your soul when you no longer believe that salvation is possible.