Bresthaft - S/T
A strange new beast of a project on Marbre Negre has just released its second cassette album... an untitled one. There is only one member, a member who calls himself Arph. Someone who is a member of Flutwacht (Legendary noise-industrial act from Germany) and flirts with black occult powers (Hermetic Self Destruction Ritual) and occasionally rubs shoulders with black metal (Black Candle). The first cassette with this project came out in 2018 on one of Flutwacht´s labels Tourette Tapes, and this untitled one on Marbre Negre is the second offering. A limited 20 cassette run kids!.
The only track on the A-side is also an untitled one, which is almost 30 minutes long. It starts with a blistering and rhythmic noise-industrial/power-electronics mash-up. Interesting ritualistic and psychedelic elements are messing around in the background while evil MZ 412/Folkstorm´ish satanic noise-vocals are stirring up the nest.
The track continues (or screams!) with splintering metallic-rusty distortions. Obviously, there is a ghost inside the machine. As a long-time fan of Flutwacht, I can already now notice a few similarities...which is a good thing, cause I like Flutwacht!
The dark-ambient/ritual elements get flattened out with thumping industrial bass. Cool sounding recordings with a machine thumping in the background as well, lovely and evil vocal work continues here.
The B-side has a heavier ambient-based soundtrack intro/beginning. A grinding saw rips through the ambient fabric like a hot knife through butter. Pulsating death-industrial machinery keeps the bass sound alive. Not as direct and vocal-based like the a-side, but more of a moody subversive one on the heavy side of sound. Additional recordings of metal scrap can also be heard here.
The whole recording has this kind of... haunted factory trapped in hell sort of a sound. Call it a harsh-noise sort of an industrial soundtrack with ritualistic undercurrents, the album sticks in lots of various directions (which is a good thing). I do miss elements of thoughtful experimentation and ideas for a new direction. Many moods and actions are going on, but there are too many of the same colors of sound going on from the start and the end. It´s a good noise album without a doubt, not for everyone though.
