Circuit Corruptor - Synthesizing the Absence of Your Soul
More mayhem and destruction from Circuit Corrupter! The second album is out on Phage Tapes, with the nerve-wracking title Synthesizing the Abscene of Your Soul. Released as a limited, nifty-looking CD Digipack with some terrific (and terrifying) graphics attached.
First of all, you have the front cover with a strange-looking human body, photo/picture has been cut into various small pieces. Notice the small wires hanging from the body...and the bloody area where the sexual organs are. Open the digipack are more beautiful gruesome graphics are revealed, mostly black and white with the color of blood here and there. There is also the inner sleeve, showing a mutant rat with wires attached to it, and more mind-bending collages. Horror fans will love the artwork! I know I do. Let´s get it on with the recorded material within!
The first track is called Prelude: Judgement and Verdict of the Fallen. Sample/recording from a courtroom, the judge/attorney asking about why he killed his own mother (among others). He goes on about a satanic view of things, why good is evil and evil is good. He is then asked if he feels responsible for his actions, and then the noise hits you like a brick wall. It screams, burns, drills, and moves the ears around a brutal soundscape like a digital hurricane. And then it ends with an eerie burial/funeral-rites soundscape.
It starts again with the second track The Descent where the listener is being led right back again into the torturous machine of sound! Everything is raw and brutal, with a touch of digital chopped-out mayhem. Heavy thunderous sounds here, wet and slippering sounds there... everything just sounds soo damn sharp!
The third track Lethargy and Vigil drills and riås everything in an explosion of cosmic terror. Eerie ambient intermission kicks in there as well, and ends when the torture begins again. Lots of high-energetic harsh noise with complex industrial elements here and there.
We jump further into track 7 Your Face Is Fading Away. A piano part starts the track, well well-known classical melancholic piano piece here... bugs me that I can´t remember who did it... Chopin? Lizst? Mozart?... Whatever. Noise-treated vocal parts jump in and out of focus while a buzzsaw churns everything into dust.
At this point, I am out of words to describe it further. Or should I say, I need to catch my breath. Everything is beyond, pretty extreme, and very much out there. It´s harsh noise, but not the boring kind. Tons of action and dynamics within, worthy to any fans of classic Japanoise. A pretty rare thing when someone makes true energetic harsh noise, and this one is a very.... exciting one. Not a single boring moment!.
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