Absolute Key - Imploding Harmony
An unknown label (new to Kalteldur), with a release with an act I don´t know. The label Bent Window hails from Vancouver, British Colombia and the act Absolute Key hails from the land of a thousand lakes... yes Finland! The label has existed since 2021, with over 70 releases so far! With some known acts on, like Praying For Oblivion and Kadaver. The act Absolute Key has existed since 2019 and has had over 20 releases so far. The label and the act both deal with extreme music, mostly industrial, noise, ritual, etc.
The physical release has come out as a limited CD, nicely done as a soft digipack. This means, a CD tray glued onto thick cardboard paper. I like the painted blue colored graphics, with some nifty collage work. Lovely esoteric vibe within the graphical content. 5 tracks, about 32 minutes in total. Let´s dig right into it.
The first track is called Destructive Axiom, it starts with a hiss, the sort of hiss that comes from hidden microphones... recording microscopic disturbances in a buried coffin. Primitive shamanistic sounds of bells, scrap metal, and glass further intensify a paranormal and spiritual force within. It evolves further into a blend of ritual-ambient and warped harsh noise. I like the sound of it, harsh, fresh, expressive, and moody. Choactic stuff yes, but with a strong sense of aesthetic purpose.
The second track Cracks In the Sky starts being a rhythmic thumbing beast on some sort of percussive set of drums. The rhythm is, not a tight one... but kind of mechanical and clumsy at the same time and has a kind of frightening and effective effect. Layers and waves of razor-sharp noise add extra points to the psychedelic experience.
The third track Chant To the Other God, is a real acid-drenched mind-bender. Starts really subtly and quietly, then some weird... kind of chanting electronic/analog sound kicks in, not actually sure if it is a human voice! Thick and dense layers of ritualistic noise work nicely here, feels like getting the soul completely cleansed! I wonder who that... Other God is?... I really do. Yog-sothoth?
The fourth track Wayfarer a subtle horrific wall of reverbed noise, punctuating sounds of noise moving in and out... and up and down as well. The thrashing of metallic scrap gets back into the mix, while some really warped distorted industrial sounds work their way through to the listener. The end is really interesting here as well, a nice touch that tells us that our creator of this release, is there with the listener the whole way through.
The fifth (and last) track Reclusion throbs and spits the minute u start the track. Kind of a death-industrial feel here, BDN-era with Innerwar? A thick and dense layered distorted industrial sound (with a rhythmic vibe) is looped while additional (and sick) layers of mind-bending brutal effects are added. And then it all ends!
It´s the kind of... album that u listen to a couple of times and then ( all of a sudden) it explodes and it will impress you. There is a kind of... honest sincerity with it. As I mentioned earlier, u feel that you are with the creator through the entire listening process! Which gives the album an effective adventurous feel. The decent diversity is also worth noticing, a lot of different moods and thoughts are rampaging through the whole thing. And again, chaotic yes... but highly effective, highly focused on the other hand.
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