Cold Meat Industry – CMI108
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Brighter Death Now /Coph Niia - 2003 - Nunsploitation
Cold Meat Industry – CMI110
Nunsploitation is a strange little object because it feels less like a major Cold Meat Industry statement and more like two dangerous neighbors agreeing to meet in a side room. Brighter Death Now and Coph Nia share the split, but they do not really share a temperament. One side comes from Roger Karmanik’s world of death industrial pressure, psychic ugliness, and damaged provocation. The other comes from Aldenon Sartorial’s ritual/esoteric chamber, where industrial darkness is filtered through magick, liturgy, and symbolic theater.
The record was released by Cold Meat Industry in 2003 as CMI110, a limited 12-inch edition of 666 copies. Discogs notes that it is “A Tribute To The Leather Nun,” with Brighter Death Now contributing “Slow Death (Slow Mix)” and Coph Nia contributing “Prime Mover (Sex Mix).” Some copies apparently even have the side labels reversed, which is a perfect underground-detail accident: the object itself becomes slightly untrustworthy, a little ritual confusion pressed into vinyl.
That Leather Nun connection gives the release its hidden key. This is not only BDN and Coph Nia being “dark.” It is two Cold Meat Industry artists bending themselves toward a Swedish punk/industrial/garage-rock ancestor whose own name already carried sex, religion, costume, parody, and provocation. The title Nunsploitation is almost a whole thesis in one ugly wink: sacred imagery turned into erotic trash cinema, spiritual authority turned into fetish theater, devotion and degradation tied together with cheap rope.
Brighter Death Now’s presence makes the joke more dangerous. Karmanik was not merely another artist on Cold Meat Industry; he founded the label and released BDN as his own death industrial/power electronics vehicle. That gives the BDN side a different weight inside the catalog, as if the basement itself has decided to cover one of its old anthems.
Coph Nia shifts the axis. Where Brighter Death Now tends to drag taboo into the open and leave it twitching under bad light, Coph Nia often ritualizes its material, making desire feel occult, ceremonial, and self-transforming. So the split becomes a two-way distortion of The Leather Nun: one side dirties the relic, the other consecrates the dirt.
That is what makes this release useful in the archive even if it is not a “central” album. It catches a network of references: Swedish underground lineage, Cold Meat Industry’s late-period confidence, cover versions as cultural transmission, and the recurring industrial fascination with corrupted holiness. It is not just an EP. It is a little séance for a band name, a scene, a mood, and an entire tradition of using offense as a cracked mirror.
After the heavier CMI run, Nunsploitation feels almost playful, but not light. More like a mask passed between two rituals: one sweaty, one candlelit, both grinning where they probably should not.
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