The Breaching Experiment is an ongoing musical exploration. Sociological metal, eclectic, apocalyptic, political and personal, furious, with an anti-fascist heart.

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Dark Resonance

2024

A development of Hartmut Rosa's theory of resonance, this album is an exploration of the potential of finding resonance with and in death. This is illustrated through eight black metal tracks, with musical and lyrical nods to Mayhem and Darkthrone.

Personnel:

Performed by Christian Ståhl.

Förgängligheten

2023

A black metal album with lyrics in Swedish dealing with sickness, death, grief and depression.

Personnel:

Performed by Christian Ståhl.

Cover art: Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Still Life with Thistle and Snake

Over

2023

A cover of Portishead's track Over, reimagined as a black metal tune.

Personnel:

Performed by Christian Ståhl. Written by Adrian Utley, Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow.

Deviant Thoughts In A Minor

2023

A musical experiment in A Minor (and Major).

Personnel:

Written and performed by Christian Ståhl.

Cover art by Thomas Klintecorn.

Utopian Death Metal

2022

A death metal EP with themes spanning the various borders between utopia and dystopia.

Personnel: 

Written and performed by Christian Ståhl.

Lead guitar by Marcus Borggren.

Stolthet & Dödsdom

2022

An album about an old Swedish village, Gusum, telling stories about the people, the mill, and the tension between labor and capital.

Read the full release notes and lyrics here (in Swedish).

Personnel: 

Written and performed by Christian Ståhl, exept the song Genomfartsled, written by Thomas Klintecorn and performed by Thomas Klintecorn and Christian Ståhl.

Cover art by Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl.

M-C-M'

2020

An EP with slow and moody music, which lyrically varies lamentations of climate and policy developments with an analysis and illustration of Marx's formula for how capitalism makes profit, and how this is translated into the living conditions of workers. 

Personnel: 

Christian Ståhl: All instruments, vocals and drum programming.

Cover art by Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl.

ALTSCHMERZ

2020

An album of eight black metal-infused songs, musically shifting between blastbeats, doomy lows and one or two rock anthem influences. Lyrically, the songs circle broadly around internal and external anxiety, from the closest relationships to general political lamentations. 

Personnel: 

Christian Ståhl: All instruments, vocals and drum programming

E.O.W.

2019

The album E.O.W. is a work of sociological metal, based on Erik Olin Wright's book Envisioning Real Utopias. It was released in 2019.

Read the full release notes and lyrics here.

Personnel: 

All instruments, vocals and drum programming performed by Christian Ståhl, with the following exceptions: 

• Narration on Growth Machine by Doug Gross.
• Narration on Real Utopias by Erik Olin Wright, from a lecture given at the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama, Japan, 2014, used with kind permission from the International Sociological Association.
• Additional narration on Real Utopias by Markus der Schlagwerker, Monica Wise, Tom Wise, and Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl.
• Lead guitar by Marcus Borggren on tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

SHIKASTA IS GOING DOWN

2019

This single was released in 2019, with the original tracks released in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Lyrics are inspired by Doris Lessing's Shikasta series and the political landscape in Europe and elsewhere. 

Personnel:

Christian Ståhl: Guitars, bass, drums, vocals

Doug Gross: Narration

Thomas Klintecorn: Noise

ANTHROPOCENE

2019

This EP focuses on rhythms and bass lines, and lyrics around climate change, poetry, space and politics.   

Personnel: 

Christian Ståhl: Bass VI, vocals and drum programming

Thomas Klintecorn: Bass VI

DOOM SOON

2018

This album is musically a punk-rock endeavor. The lyrics deal with political issues such as climate change, work and welfare, populist politics and online bullying. 

Personnel:

Christian Ståhl: Guitars, bass, vocals

Anna-Carin Fagerlind Ståhl: Vocals 

Linus Melchiorsen: Drums