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▶ "Iron Mountain" is a song on the second Dead Red Velvet release, Skeleton Shore, on Tape Life Records.

▶ Tape Life Records presents Dead Red Velvet's second release, Skeleton Shore, a six-song romp through dark techno, gritty electropop and cinematic dark ambient. The follow-up to The Ghostly Divide drops the guitars in favour of Mohr's trademark synth work, seducing with urgent songs touching on arboreal ghosts, Austrian immigration, nuclear power and otherworldly luminosity. Culled mostly from the period 2004-2006, this is Mohr's most tonally-consistent work. An electronic music acid bath of edge and depth, this short album is recommended for fans of 80s alternative, dark ambient, golden era industrial, Skinny Puppy and darker sides of Shriekback.

▶ Lyrics:

I was sent a sheet of paper,
just a regular sheet of paper.
They told me it was important data
and I should go to the iron mountain.

In the halls of the iron mountain,
I heard the sounds of stacking and counting.
All alone in the iron mountain
with my regular sheet of paper.

I found my way to the desk receiver;
spoke in languages foreign and clever.
I explained the best that I could then:
I didn't understand iron mountain.

I was sent to the Hall of Paper,
floor to ceiling just regular paper.
So many bodies stacking and counting
deep in the heart of iron mountain.

All the secrets of civilization,
all of the everyday facts and figures,
all of the regular sheets of paper,
deep in the heart of iron mountain.

I came upon a janitor working,
told me the way to happiness lasting,
told me the future of those who linger
is a lifelong cleaning up paper.

I escaped to the daylight sun,
looked around at the land around.
High to the clouds in every direction,
thousands of rising iron mountains.

I was sent a sheet of paper,
now I'm lost in the iron mountain.
Thousands of rising iron mountains.

▶ Credits (from Skeleton Shore, released February 14, 2019):

ALL TITLES WRITTEN, PERFORMED, ENGINEERED, EDITED, MIXED, MASTERED & PRODUCED BY KARL MOHR.

SELECTED RECORDINGS FROM 2004-2006, EXCEPT 06 FROM 2011, PUBLISHED BY MULTIBEAT MUSIC (SOCAN) AND REMASTERED FOR TAPE LIFE RECORDS IN 2019.

VOCAL SAMPLES ON 01 BY JULIA GALIOS. SOPRANO VOICE ON 05 BY KRISTIN MUELLER. COVER IMAGE IS FROM THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR 02, DIRECTED BY ELIZABETH FEARON, SHOT BY GILLIAN WILLIAMSON. PAPER MOUNTAIN DESIGNED AND BUILT BY EDMUND LAW. SLEEVE DESIGN BY SITUATSI.

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▶ Filmed at AWOL Gallery in Toronto, “Iron Mountain” was directed and edited by Elizabeth Fearon. Cinematography by Gillian Williamson. Edmund Law designed and built the paper mountain. Makeup by Jaclynn Randall. Special thanks: Rupen, Matt Schofield, Alison Markle and Ian Revell of the band Double Eyelid.