вЂњWhen we first announced that we were putting out The Unnatural World, I had people emailing me three days later asking where the record was.вЂќ вЂњHave A Nice Life fans are intense,вЂќ says Jonathan Tuite, whose record label The Flenser released DeathconsciousnessвЂ™s 2014 follow-up The Unnatural World. The record was like a Creepypasta come to life, an album so thoroughly haunted by death that youвЂ™d feel cursed by association just listening to it. The rawness of their recordings and their deeply distressing subject makes them a hard sell for most listeners, but for an audience hunting down and sharing the darkest music they could find, Deathconsciousness was everything they could have asked for. I couldnвЂ™t do anything,вЂќ Dan laughs.Дespite rarely performing live and having almost no conventional press coverage, Have A Nice Life developed a fanatical cult following. вЂњHeвЂ™s fucking yolked so he had no trouble with it. Barrett later took Fantano rock climbing to thank him for the coverage. NOT EVER.вЂќ t-shirt and was an e arly champion of BarrettвЂ™s solo project, Giles Corey. Fantano would frequently wear the bandвЂ™s iconic вЂњNO FUN. Aided by their relative anonymity and DeathconsciousnessвЂ™ ominous liner notes, which described a fictional medieval cult that worshipped GodвЂ™s murderer, Dan and Tim quickly became the stuff of internet myth.Д®qually important to the bandвЂ™s popularity was the support of Youtuber Anthony Fantano. The result of this patchwork process was 2008вЂ™s Deathconsciousness, a double disc album that quickly became a viral hit amongst internet communities like /mu/, sputnikmusic, and rateyourmusic. вЂњHe would record part of an acoustic song, go do Tae-Kwon-Do and IвЂ™d add a Rammstein ending.вЂќ

вЂњDan was a latchkey bandmate,вЂќ Tim chimes in. вЂњWe would get together once a week, work on music for a few hours and then go get burritos.вЂќ вЂњWe never had any intention of these songs existing in the fleshвЂќ Dan says, voice hoarse after a sold out show at Brooklyn Bazaar. Shortly after the death of Dan's father, they started recording those songs on a shoestring budget, burying their voices under dense layers of distortion. The Connecticut duo are hard to pin down to any one sound, you can hear traces of black metal, shoegaze, post-punk, and emo in equal measure, but none of their music would be a suitable soundtrack to the good life.Дan Barrett and Tim Macuga formed Have A Nice Life in the mid-2000s and quickly earned a reputation for terrorizing local open mics with morbid acoustic songs. The punchline to this version of the joke is the bandвЂ™s music. On the surface the bandвЂ™s name is dripping with sarcasm, the phrase being the kind of thing you only say to someone you have no plans on ever seeing again. Though little to nothing about their music is funny, Have A Nice LifeвЂ™s name is a joke.

Have a nice life.