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[[Image:Welcomeoblivioncd.jpg|thumb|CD album art''Welcome Oblivion'']][[Image:welcomeoblivion.jpg|thumb|Vinyl album artartwork]]'''''Welcome Oblivion''''' is an album release by [[How To Destroy Angels]]. It is the band's first full-length release and their third release in all. It was released by [[Columbia Records ]] on March 5th, 2013. It is labeled as [[Sigil numbers|Sigil 4]]. The vinyl release of the album comes with two bonus tracks. When downloaded from HTDA's official store, the tracks each come with their own artwork, a variation of the head from the album's art.
[[Rob Sheridan]] describes the album's concept as "anxiety of information overload as humanity and technology converge and presenting technological singularity and post-humanism as both a terrifying and transformative moment for mankind and nature."
There are two unique tracks on the vinyl format: "The Province Of Fear" and "Unintended Consequences". The full vinyl release also includes a CD/Digital version of within the album was made available to stream in its entirety for free via Pitchfork on February 20thsleeve, and on containing the same day the band released pre-orders through their own website, and some new t-shirt designs linked to vinyl sequencing of the album's artwork.
==Credits==
Thank you:<br>Mark Williams, Scott Greer, Erika Alfredson, Rob Stringer, Ashley Newton, Bryan younce and the rest of the Columbia team, Christina Lum, Selene Yen, Irina Volodarsky, Karen Ciccone, Ross Rosen, Claudia Sarne, Tamar Levine, Tara Dowburd-Luftman, Iowa Wong, David A. Sitek, Factory Floor, The Soft Moon, Deadmau5, Claudia Lagan, Angela Sidlow, John Hillcoat, Jonathan Pavesi, everyone at Skunk, Elise Velasco, Johnny Stuntz, Andreas and everyone at NI, Olaf and everyone at Ableton, Mitch and everyone at Soundtoys, everyone at Shynola, Matt Mahurin, Elena Dickstein and preferred travel, Rockit Cargo, Nicki Goldstein and Midway
==Tour datesArt direction==The art of the album was conceived by the entire HTDA's group, and was primarily executed by Rob Sheridan. He used a technique of creating art, placing the image onto VHS tapes and then photographing distortion through a CRT monitor as shown [http://robsheridan.tumblr.com/post/44483580368/making-some-htda-visuals here]. In a Reddit AMA, Sheridan gave the following explanation of the ideas that went into the artwork:<blockquote>The visual direction of this album came about first live shows are from the concept of the record. Trying to be played at Coachella 2013express the anxiety of information overload, the end of mankind as both terrifying and transformative, apocalypse and evolution, etc. I was inspired by the way Trent and Atticus set up rules for themselves around the way they record music for each project, and the analog methods they will were experimenting with for this record that tied into its themes. So I started looking for a visual analogy for that, and also have a visual analogy for information overloading the pipeline it's being sent through - of signals unable to display coherently. It led me down the road of experimenting with analog cables and old CRT monitors and VHS decks. The result was a set of rules I came up with for creating the visuals. As much of a pain in the ass the process is sometimes, it's strangely freeing to work within constraints. Not only does it force a rigid visual consistency, it takes Photoshop out of the equation entirely (the CRT texture makes the images largely uneditable in post, besides color corrections). Sometimes there's something extremely daunting about a blank document in Photoshop, because you can go absolutely ANYWHERE with it. Setting up some limitations has proved really useful.[http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/19q0r9/we_are_how_to_destroy_angels_mariqueen_maandig/]</blockquote> ==Touring==''For more information, see [[How To Destroy Angels Live 2013| 2013]]'' HTDA's first live shows were played in the spring of 2013 as a short North American tourto promote ''Welcome Oblivion''. The shows featured innovative production using light curtains made of LED-filled tubing, with dazzling visuals controlled from the stage by Rob Sheridan. ==Multitracks==For a remix contest through Indaba Music, [[multitracks]]from three ''Welcome Oblivion'' songs were released in May 2013. These were: "How Long?", "On The Wing", and "Strings And Attractors". They can be downloaded at archive.org[https://archive.org/details/htda_multitracks] ==External Links==*[http://nincatalog.com/how-to promote -destroy-angels/ How To Destroy Angels category at nincatalog.com]*[http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D0%26ref_%3Dnb%5Fsb%5Fnoss%26y%3D0%26field-keywords%3Dhow%2520to%2520destroy%2520angels%2520welcome%2520oblivion%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=thniinnawi-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957 ''Welcome Oblivion'' afterwardsat Amazon] *[http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=9&pub=5574848848&toolid=10001&campid=5336384580&customid=&icep_uq=how+to+destroy+angels+welcome+oblivion&icep_sellerId=&icep_ex_kw=&icep_sortBy=12&icep_catId=&icep_minPrice=&icep_maxPrice=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg ''Welcome Oblivion'' at eBay]
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