{"id":14556,"date":"2025-07-30T09:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14556"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:55:51","slug":"ratio-strain-unleashes-a-story-of-demons-with-new-album-exorcism-out-now-via-negative-gain-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14556","title":{"rendered":"RATIO STRAIN Unleashes A Story of Demons With New Album \u2018Exorcism\u2019; Out Now via Negative Gain Productions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"905\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Exorcism-Album-Cover.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14557\" style=\"width:494px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Exorcism-Album-Cover.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Exorcism-Album-Cover-265x300.jpeg 265w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Exorcism-Album-Cover-768x869.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>San Diego\u2019s industrial noise\/EBM artist RATIO STRAIN has released its new album Exorcism on July 25th via Negative Gain Productions. The new effort, follower of the 2023 EP The B Side of Life, blends industrial chaos with rhythmic brutality. Once again, RATIO STRAIN pushes the limits of electronic music, delivering raw, unfiltered aggression with a commanding presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Ratio Strain-Exorcism Music Video (Vertical Version)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2aky0gtvu-0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RATIO STRAIN<\/strong>\u2019s first full album&nbsp;<em><strong>Exorcism<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;features heavy, unapologetic beats with inspiration from industrial noise, 90\u2019s electronic, and trip-hop\/rap. The artist has always explored concepts of the human condition and&nbsp;<em><strong>Exorcism<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;is no different, being a story of the demons within and the journey to the ultimate final form. This album features&nbsp;<strong>RATIO STRAIN<\/strong>\u2019s first visual presentation into the world of Exorcism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will you fight what you are becoming? Or will you accept your fate and embrace the demons?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Exorcism<\/strong><\/em> tracklist<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Dum Spiro Spero (02:26)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Enouement (04:11)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Kilig (04:03)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Slubberdegullion (04:11)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Exorcism (04:36)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Andronitis (03:59)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. Liberosis (03:43)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. Liminal (04:35)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. Nefandous (02:07)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Produced by Vanessa E. Mixed and mastered by David Christian at Squarewave Studios. Photos by Myhaloisprada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a><\/a>Follow RATIO STRAIN:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ratio.strain\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ratio_strain\">TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rati0strain.bandcamp.com\/\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/negativegain.com\/\">Negative Gain Productions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedarkchannel.net\/\">The Dark Channel PR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego\u2019s industrial noise\/EBM artist RATIO STRAIN has released its new album Exorcism on July 25th via Negative Gain Productions. The new effort, follower of the 2023 EP The B Side of Life, blends industrial chaos with rhythmic brutality. Once again, RATIO STRAIN pushes the limits of electronic music, delivering raw, unfiltered aggression with a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=14556\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RATIO STRAIN Unleashes A Story of Demons With New Album \u2018Exorcism\u2019; Out Now via Negative Gain Productions!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14558,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556\/revisions\/14558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}