Subklinik - Korporation
One of the granddaddies when we are talking about classic death industrial, just like mom used to make it!. I wØøanted to do a review of one of his releases on his Bandcamp, so this is the one. More information about this cult act can, of course, be obtained by reading the interview I did with him for the Brvtalist (Link below).
Korporation (not Corporation!) was originally released in 2015 on Neurologic Tapes, strictly limited to 23 copies!. 7 tracks, about 31 minutes of pure and minimal death industrial at its best!.
Already at the first track called Kadavr, you´ll notice a kind of .. Windy and eerie sound coming through some sort of pipe/tube, made me think of the classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre soundtrack from 74. This gets beautifully mixed up with mournful, deep, straining and haunting voices. Lots of mood before action here, sheer beautiful minimalism here. Next track Veinkut, sounds like a Lovecraftian nightmare being heard over an old radio transmitter. Slowly building ritualistic undercurrents and wall-like noise-ambient elements. This is exactly the kind of dark-ambiance that I enjoy, raw and minimal! Third track Kavatik leave your senses all alone in a deep and dark underground cavern, with strange sounds coming from lower below. Somewhere between heaven and hell perhaps, angelic blackness?. Fourth track (with the charming title) Skullcrusher, feels like being lifted few centimeters off the ground. Weightless, post-apocalyptic but strangely soothing. Konstrukt offers you ritualistic drummings in an abandoned factory, with a basslike atmospheric wall of sound pinning you down. On the sixth track, you almost get the fell of Tibetian monks being in a frightful ritual trance. Still with the strange and windy like sounds engulfing your senses. The final track named Korporation (like the album), sort of continues whatever the first track gave you. The kind of hypnotic, paralyzed sort of lucid dreaming. The end is near, and it is quite certain!.
What can I say?... Any want to do classic death-industrial with the right mood? ... Need an intro, take this one and learn!. It´s an absolute beauty. Sounds like early Brighter Death Now (Pain In Progress, Necrose Evangelicum ... my favorite era) and Megaptera together. It just sounds RIGHT and pure in my ears (No, I don´t wanna use the wanker word TRUE!) It´s a bloody must for the upcoming Halloween folks!.
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