"Chronicles of Conflict" sees AXKAN and Duellist forging a visceral dialogue - each taking a side, each wielding industrial techno as their weapon of choice in a four-track exploration of modern warfare’s emotional landscape. Think of it as a reflection on global turmoil, as raw rhythm and pounding basslines become sonic battlegrounds.

Duellist opens SideA with "Oxidative Stress", a pulverizing track driven by distorted kicks and razor-sharp percussion that thrums with unease. It’s a relentless march through anxiety, followed by "Stains of Time", which lingers with melancholic atmospherics - like the lingering ghosts of past conflicts etched in your bones.

Flip over and AXKAN delivers the counterstrike. "Warfare" is modular-techno precision - low-end hypnosis that pulses like a machine in motion. Then comes "Thermobaric", whose offbeat rhythms and fractured patterns echo the chaos of modern battlefields, both sonically coherent and disorienting.

This EP isn't simply a pairing of heavy-hitters - it’s a communion of two distinct approaches to industrial techno, unified by the urgent desire to respond to conflict through sound. Sonically, it’s polished yet punishing; emotionally, it’s an aural trench coat that envelops you in tension and release. A bold statement from OMEN Recordings, "Chronicles of Conflict" stomps the underground, reminding us that industrial techno can be both furious and thoughtful, brutal and purposeful.