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Escaping Aghartha - Consuming Drought - Blackened Sludge Metal 2022

Croak releases April 19th, 2022. Download the album at name your price on bandcamp. Lyrics for each song are also there. https://escaping-aghartha.bandcamp.com/   / escaping_aghartha_band     / escapingaghartha   ALL PROFITS from Croak in the first month of its release (including all preorders) will be donated to the International Union for Conservation of Nature - specifically to their amphibian conservation branch. If you can't afford to buy Croak, please consider sharing Croak with a friend, instead. https://www.iucn-amphibians.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------ABOUT THE SONG---------------------------------------------------------------- Habitat loss is the most widespread cause of declines for amphibians [5]. Development on wetlands, logging, palm oil/soybean plantations, mining, and cattle ranching are some of the most common practices which lead to habitat loss and water cycle disturbances (leading to drought) - especially in tropical environments [6]. Some species have an extremely small range which makes them especially susceptible to extinction from habitat degradation. Because amphibians require wet environments to reproduce, they are very sensitive to water cycle disturbances [6]. Climate change and droughts becoming more common are of major concern for the future of amphibians. -----------------------------------------------------------ABOUT THE ALBUM---------------------------------------------------------------- Croak is a doom metal concept album about the ongoing amphibian extinction event, in which 33% of all amphibian species in the world are at risk of extinction solely due to anthropogenic impacts. Drawing from a multitude of genres, Escaping Aghartha has created a unique and dynamic album that has few parallels. The founder and leader of the band, Avery, who is a biologist says "I wanted to add an element of time passing to Croak. To accomplish this, bells, stopwatches, and grandfather clock noises have been included in the album to create an urgent and dire mood. The amphibian extinction is happening rapidly, and in my daily life, I feel this urgency acutely. It weighs on me. Action and change is needed desperately. Croak acts both as a way to raise awareness about these issues and also as a catharsis for my frustration and sorrow". Amphibian species are becoming extinct around 211 times faster than normal when compared with baseline extinction levels [1, 2]. This rate of extinction is extremely alarming - not only are amphibians important in ecosystems, but amphibians are also indicator species because they're relatively sensitive to changes in their environment. When amphibian species are in decline, that indicates poor environmental health and is a warning sign [3, 4]. If nothing is done to reverse environmental decline, other groups of animals will continue to experience increasing extinction rates. Chytrid (pronounced kih-trid), a species of invasive fungus which has been unintentionally spread worldwide by humans, infects amphibians. It’s a highly infectious fungus that spreads rapidly and has high lethality rates. In some species, mortality is 100%. The Panamanian golden frog is a well-known example in which chytrid spread quickly throughout the species and resulted in their complete extinction in the wild [6]. Sources: [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/4498614 [2] https://naturalhistory.si.edu/educati... [3] https://defenders.org/wildlife/amphib... [4] https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/Docu... [5] https://www.iucn-amphibians.org/ [6] https://www.nps.gov/articles/reptiles... To learn more about amphibian extinction, here is an easy-to-understand and well-written article by the National Park Service outlining amphibian threats in greater detail. https://www.nps.gov/articles/reptiles...