Fatal Blast Whip - Slave Device (1997)

Artist: Fatal Blast Whip
Album: Slave Device
Location: San Francisco, USA
Genres: Industrial, Industrial Rock
Year Released: 1997
Date Refound / Posted: 2023-08-04, found by an RYM user who wishes to remain anonymous

Format(s) Released: CDr

Explanation: The Christian Industrial scene is the perfect example of an incredibly niche movement that has a lot of lost releases in it. Fatal Blast Whip is one such project whose music never saw much widespread appeal and as a result releases from the band have vanished.
Fatal Blast Whip is the industrial alias of Californian-based artist Derek Jones. I'm not sure if this is supposed to be a one-man band project or just an alias but either way, Derek Jones made a few of these industrial records, reaching into the early 2010s.

This specific release is Slave Device, their debut album. RYM currently has the only information even proving this one exists. It was added back when metacomments weren't needed so we don't even have original links for it. This being a demo makes it even more illusive since it's unlikely the artist has any interest in re-releasing it.

Reasons for Disappearance: It was a promotional demo, probably released locally and sent to a few labels. Never had widespread circulation and the artist never obtained that much attention anyways. It as found after much searching on p2p sites. Though since he is still around he may as well just re-issue it.
Derek Jones is still around and is still a member of the rock band Sleepy Hollow. They recently have been uploading old stuff to their Bandcamp, so fingers crossed this gets posted too.
Unfortunately, the cover is lost to time and after much searching I was unable to find it.

Download: aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZpbGUvU0ZCRmlEREkjcnVzb05WU2xfTnc0cjhOUnAxTWdrS2FtaGxLaFpOZFZYV29pOFRTaDJfUQ==
Password: slavesnomore

Further Reading: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/floydienslip/an-incomplete-history-of-christian-industrial/

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