Subklinik - Molestdeath

The good news is that Subklinik is still alive and kicking, and this act has an upcoming release (late June) called Molestdeath. It will be available via the official Subklinik Bandcamp site, and it will be released on cassette via Korporation Records. An almost 40 minutes journey into a realm of utter darkness and morbid curiosities. Bound to please any fans of Cold Meat Industry, Slaughter Productions but also older labels like Sterile Records and Nekrophile Records.

First track Return To Slaughter welcomes the listener with that old-school pre-dark-ambient/industrial-ambient sound from the mid-80s underground cassette-culture. A hypnotic and humming soundscape that sounds a bit like the humming-blades from older airplanes. Bone crunching and ritualistic machine-drums, paranormal, and tortured voices roam in the background while razor-sharp tones drop gently in and out of focus. Think somewhere between early Brighter Death Now and Anenzephalia sounds good right?.

Second track Isolate adds more fuel to the morbid sort of mysticism. Looped and evocative synth-driven bass-line while a strange and necrotic windy-sound of desolation touches and makes your neck-hair stand straight up. It could also sound like... distant bombing or explosions. I am not sure, it sounds unbelievable great and depressing (in a good way!).

Third track Molestdeath starts with an interesting, pulsating, and rhythmic heartbeat-sound. Distant pitched down human voices hums and screams while samples from a court-order are being held, cannot hear what it is about but considering the mood, it will probably be something rather nasty. The reverb and echo effects are great and perfect, and the mood is just really strong so it doesn't matter that you cannot hear the sample that well.

Fourth track Deadvoid... sounds like a Deadvoid. One of those eternal falling pits of blackness and death which no one... would jump into. A simple but effective scary horror-themed background ambient-piece.

Fifth track Mental Atrophy, bloody amazing track! Excellent high-pitched tones, more screaming, and cool sounding ritualistic drums. A very simple and monotonous atmospheric piece that you want to repeat over and over again. Keep getting back to that classic and experimental soundtrack which was done for the first Texas Chainsaw Massacre!

Sixth track Rotting Agony is a slow and grinding ruined piece, pure death-industrial atmospheres (no power electronics here folks!). Being buried alive with only the sound of your pounding heartbeat keeping you company, almost sensing and hearing sounds while your life slips slowly away.

Last track Dismembered End is... a Dismembered End. Not much to hang on to, could it be any darker?... (YES IT CAN!). A pleasant and torturous moment at the end of the rope?... (YES IT IS!).

A depressing but JOYFUL experience that old-school death-industrial (without the power-electronics sound) can still impress the listener to this day. Might just be the best death-industrial album I have heard in a long time, true to the bone and incredibly efficient at the same time! DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!

Bandcamp (band):

https://subklinik-korporation.bandcamp.com/

Facebook (band):

https://www.facebook.com/subklinik/