Tyrannus - The Warden
We just had to come around it, why the hell haven´t I reviewed this cult act? I don´t really know, things you HAVE to review have this strange tendency in piling up. Same way when you are pouring coffee into a filled cup, and after that, you have to clean the coffee up. Well, today it´s the day for a Tyrannus review. The same day that I actually got married, not that I have thoughts about getting an unholy marriage with Mr. Tyrannus though... Wouldn´t mind getting married to this release though which is (again) sold out in physical form, as with the sold-out cassette release with ElixiR I just have to headhunt this one down as well. Sending a letter to Santa maybe?.
Tyrannus deal in monotonic and noise-crispy/crunchy dungeon synth. The kind of dungeon synth u might expect to find in a cold and damp torture cellar. It´s not all evil and blackened, beautiful and epic elements are also to be found. Much in the same way when you find a merry and (early) noisy ambient piece by Boyd Rice/NON, and then wrapping that up with a-drone-metal´ish/post-rock´ish sense of slowed aggression (kind of). Very sincere and very intimate stuff. I also think that watching Passolini´s epic and "beautiful" art ´torture flick Salo (or Martyrs!) while listening to The Warden... could actually heighten the listening experience. Quite easy to understand why this act became a cult phenomenon in the dungeon-synth scene. We´re dealing with a complete full-length release, 17 tracks about 82 minutes!. Well worth exploring this lush harshness torture-dungeon! Below you can see photos of the various edition which (sadly) have all been sold out.
CD Version
Cassette Version
The Warden Deluxe CD - 2nd Edition - Blood Dawn Rise
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