Afflicted By Design Releases #nameless Digital EP On May 14, 2013

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Afflicted By Design official website) The Austin-based industrial rock outfit Afflicted By Design releases its first EP, #nameless (AGCruxansata Music), on May 14, 2013. The Ep is available directly from Afflicted By Design and at all major download and streaming music services including iTunes, AmazonMP3, Spotify, Google Play, MOG, and Rdio.

#nameless was written and produced by Afflicted By Design's S.A. Sebastian Gnolfo and features 3 original songs — "Jesus Christ Machine," "South Side of Sickness" and "Dreaming Mona" — with Heavy Metal riffing, hyper-overdriven sounds, declarative vocals and not-totally-organic sounds, synths and loops which draw on Afflicted By Design pays homage to Afflicted By Design's Goth, Industrial and Heavy Metal roots; drawing comparisons to bands such as Rammstein, Ministry, Rob Zombie and Filter.

"In creating #nameless it was very important to me that it sound as much like it was performed by a live band as possible, and that it sound like a collaboration. Especially with the musicians being in different states and after a dozen years in Industrial bands playing music that was edited, quantized and locked to a grid," says Sebastian. Editing and quantizing performances to fix timing and Auto-Tune and pitch correction wasn't allowed. All performances on #nameless had to be done in single takes with live overdubs to fix and performances. Each musician contributed something cool and unique to themselves making #nameless sound like a real, live, band album.

Afflicted By Design is an Austin, TX-based Industrial Metal band founded in 2012 by S.A. Sebastian Gnolfo. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Sebastian is the only official member of Afflicted By Design.

Website: https://afflictedbydesign.com/