If Battles' older material was like origami, with its angular, overlapping planes, then its new songs have been folded more often and twisted askew.
The team handcrafted 70 hard material and 50 soft material battle suits in the course of almost five months.
On a bigger scale again, a battle for raw materials, economic resources, political influence and military footholds is under way in sub-Saharan Africa, where China has placed commercial advantage ahead of governance and human rights concerns, and increasingly in Latin America.
In this battle the whole material universe is, through the entities, potentially enrolled, the Bounteous Spirit being the patron of humankind, Asha of fire, the Good Mind of the Ox, the Dominion of the metals, Aramaiti of the earth, Integrity and Immortality of the waters and plants.
Kareem Massoud is a walking encyclopedia of Paumanok viniculture: hand- versus machine-harvesting (Paumanok does both), cork versus screw cap (Paumanok uses both), even the battle against M.O.G. ("material other than grape," which Paumanok keeps out of its juice through human and mechanical means).
For four decades following the urban rebellion of 1967, Detroit and its suburbs became locked in a material battle over a shrinking pie and an ideological war over who was to blame for the region's problems.
He says some people use battle events to test materials' abilities and the design of new props and motors.
But he will most likely face a protracted battle to authenticate the material, in part because Mr. Martin is no longer alive.
Bernard Jenkin, the senior Conservative MP, said it was legitimate to question why the Cabinet Office spent three years fighting a freedom of information battle to stop the material being published.
His exercise of high-handedness armed him for the battles over priority in materials, speedy design of the bomb and production of its fuels.
