To End It All

Since 2016 long-time collaborators sound artist Masaaki Masao and vocalist & multi-instrumentalist Joy Von Spain (members of Eye of Nix) have created new work as TO END IT ALL. Building unusual songs with massive dynamic range forged from obliterated samples, keyboards, voices and guitar, the music encompasses dark ambient drones, operatic moments, harsh wall noise, rhythms, Doom metal riffs and at times lush orchestrations.

 

In 2021, the duo became a trio with the addition of guitarist & vocalist A. K. O’Neill (Serpentent) to the live group. Past appearances include Covenant Fest, Cascadian Yule, Peace Simulation/Heavy Talent pop-up, Litha Cascadia, and as artists in residence at Teatro de la Psychomachia. TO END IT ALL often collaborates with Butoh dance artist Vanessa Skantze, ritual artist Anima Nocturna or filmmaker Joseph Seuferling to create an immersive live experience with movement, video or installations. Over 2021-22 the band recorded a new album which features three songs with world-renowned cellist Lori Goldston (Earth). During the pandemic lockdown in 2020, TO END IT ALL released a single “Strength Is Nothing”, an excerpt from a work composed with Zvi (Ron Varod) to accompany part of Tarkovsky’s masterpiece film, Stalker. The complete piece and single (as well as a remix by Marc Tweed) will be released on tape in April 2022.

 

“Hear To End It All seduce and destroy…dark, unsettling, and terrifying…” – Cvlt Nation

 

“Scourge of Woman (is)…nine terrifying tracks that sound like Von Spain’s spiritual bloodletting, as her words are delivered with a ferocity and power that’s impossible to avoid. This music is the voice of women abandoned, and she and Masao aren’t going to sit idly by and watch it happen. The intensity and anger that pours from this record is so forceful, you practically can feel it crack through your chest cavity, damaging your heart.” – Meat Mead Metal

 

“To End It All‘s Scourge of Woman full-length sounds like what would happen if drone/doom purveyors Khanate were forced into a blender with noisemakers Pharmakon and Lingua Ignota and forced to conduct devilish rituals.” – Decibel 

 

“…an atomic blast of an album—terrifying, and wonderful, and completely devastating.” – Vice

“To End It All’s debut is a monument to noise, anguish and righteous, burning rage; abrasive and chaotic, yet subtle and restrained, defiantly refusing to coddle the listener. …a challenging beast… one of the most discomforting listening experiences I’ve ever had, on par with or exceeding much of Portal or Dodecahedron’s work…” – Angry Metal Guy

 

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Since the fall of 2016, long-time collaborators sound artist Masaaki Masao and vocalist & multi-instrumentalist Joy Von Spain have created new work as TO END IT ALL. Building unusual songs with massive dynamic range forged from voices, keyboards, obliterated samples, guitar & classical instruments, the music encompasses dark ambient drones, synths, operatic moments, noise, rhythms & beats, doom metal riffs and lush orchestrations.

April 2024 unleashes a new LP: “Of Blood And Memory” featuring three songs with world-renowned cellist Lori Goldston (Earth, Nirvana live) and guest vocalist/guitarist A. K. O’Neill (Serpentent) who often joins as a live member of the band. A companion LP including remixes by irr.app.(ext.), Blood Box, Thief, & Xiphoid Dementia and a cover by The Unbodied Air (members of Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin) will also be available in very limited quantities. Both records will be unleashed by purveyors of exciting and unusual bands, Roman Numeral Records (Nadja, Fawn Limbs, Deep Cross).

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Live At Teatro De La Psychomachia / Strength Is Nothing (ft. Zvi) – A Partial Soundtrack For Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Stalker”

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Release date: 2022-04-02
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Biography

Since the fall of 2016, long-time collaborators sound artist Masaaki Masao and vocalist & multi-instrumentalist Joy Von Spain have created new work as TO END IT ALL. Building unusual songs with massive dynamic range forged from voices, keyboards, obliterated samples, guitar & classical instruments, the music encompasses dark ambient drones, synths, operatic moments, noise, rhythms & beats, doom metal riffs and lush orchestrations.

April 2024 unleashes a new LP: “Of Blood And Memory” featuring three songs with world-renowned cellist Lori Goldston (Earth, Nirvana live) and guest vocalist/guitarist A. K. O’Neill (Serpentent) who often joins as a live member of the band. A companion LP including remixes by irr.app.(ext.), Blood Box, Thief, & Xiphoid Dementia and a cover by The Unbodied Air (members of Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin) will also be available in very limited quantities. Both records will be unleashed by purveyors of exciting and unusual bands, Roman Numeral Records (Nadja, Fawn Limbs, Deep Cross).

The official music video for the 1st single/title track features movement by butoh dance master Kaoru Okumura, created by Anthelion Productions with To End It All. A second video was created for “Drink of Silence” by Von Spain with Anthelion, featuring the band alongside butoh artists Vanessa Skantze & Douglas Ridings with Okumura. 

April 18th in Seattle there will be a multi-media acoustic/Classical arrangement of the album by Von Spain for three voices with cellist Goldston and violinist Jackie An. Following this unique experience at the beautiful Chapel Performance Space, the electric trio version of TO END IT ALL will tour their full album in limited dates on the West Coast US. May 10th in Oakland, CA the trio will premiere a new collaboration with ballet/butoh artist Monique Tajiri Goldwater at The Spire.

In July 2023, Hali Autumn’s “Twin Seas” film premiered with a live soundtrack by the TO END IT ALL duo at the inaugural Lunasa Cascadia festival in OR. This 26-min visual feast starring master butoh artist Vanessa Skantze and Pacific Northwest coastal tide pools & caves was also shown at the NW Film Forum event South Sound Experimental Film Festival shortly after.

In Spring of 2022, TO END IT ALL brought a multi-disciplinary performance with Skantze on the road for a West Coast tour. Masao and Von Spain frequently collaborate with her, or other vision-based artists to create an immersive live experience with movement, lighting or video projections. TO END IT ALL are also regular participants at Teatro de la Psychomachia in Seattle. 

The group’s re-entry into live performance after the pandemic lockdowns was at the much-anticipated 2021 Peace Simulation pop-up by Heavy Talent. In the dark winter of 2020, TEIA released the single “Strength Is Nothing”. This 20-minute work was composed as a trio with Zvi (Ron Varod of Kayo Dot, Myrkur live) to accompany part of Tarkovsky’s masterpiece film, Stalker. This piece has been paired with a TEIA trio live recording from the Teatro de la Psychomachia for a spring 2022 tour tape on their own micro-label, Scry Recordings.

Long-standing German label Prophecy’s luxus edition of the Eye of Nix album Ligeia (2020) features a cover by TO END IT ALL of the track “Stranded”.

In 2018 the duo released the full-length LP Scourge of Woman through Scry Recordings. The album’s death industrial, dark ambient, melodic and noise collage structures received accolades within the post-industrial and experimental music world and press, carried by select distros in the US & UK including Cold Spring and Cloister. Scourge of Woman features photography by Anima Nocturna in collaboration with Joy Von Spain. TO END IT ALL released a tour tape via Scry as well as Lure in 2017, a co-release with US tape label Maternal Infection.

In addition to touring the US west coast and midwest, TO END IT ALL have appeared at Covenant Fest (BC), Litha Cascadia Solstice & the Cascadian Yule gathering in Olympia, as well as at many unusual shows in Seattle.

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