Zoloft Evra - Murder Chamber
Second review on Kalteldur with this amazingly dark Italian-based industrial/ritual experimental project. Second full-length album after their debut Negative Infliction Pleasure (Lovely title) from 2015, which came out on Naked Lunch Records. This second album was released the 4th of November 2016 on Frozen Light in an ltd quantity of 300 stamped copies.
A journey through forbidden ritual-based sexual pleasures performed behind locked doors, hidden basements and secret lofts. Zoloft Evra deal with demonic taboos of basic human lust, the kind of sexual-based pleasures that hide deep within our subconscious. The album has been called Murder Chamber, and for good reason. Let me give you a thorough description of the murderous pleasures hidden within!
First track called Razor Deepthroat (video below) could give you a hint or two, or just frighten you away. A hypnotizing and ritualistic drone based moody piece featuring moaning female vocals, clatterings like a knife are stroking a long metallic spring, frightening multi-layered reverbed windy sounds all trapped inside some huge cathedral. Sounds like a dimension have just been opened into the netherworlds!.
After you have gone through that dimensional portal, thou has now entered the Murder Chamber (see first shows video above). Fusion of different ideas here in style and sound. Satanic black ritual-industrialism meets heavily distorted and shoegazer/post-rock´ish guitar-work. Sounds really amazing!.
Krokodil Death Ride. A ritual drumming and satanic summoning with that awesome MZ.412´ish looped distorted guitar sound. Maybee the idea of this track has been inspired by the users of Krokodil. A nasty and highly addictive flesh eating zombie-drug from Russia, take it once and you are done for it!. Disturbing frightening piece.
Fourth track Deadlife Obedience features raw female vocals, combined with funeral-doom aesthetics. A slowly and beautiful melodic harsh ambient-rock piece. Fans of Swans would enjoy it I'm sure of it!.
Cold Hypnotic Bloodbath follows up where Deadlife ended. A saddened mesmerizing moody suicidal piece with beautiful guitar work. With those slightly harsh and whispering vocals, and with a deep and mysterious wall of drones building up in the blackened background. Feels like blood oozing out of your system, slowly transporting your soul beyond.
After walking the several hundred steps with razors on them, you end up with the last track called The Screaming Wall. An ambient-drone wall nonetheless, which works in the same manner as the unforgettable ending scene from Pasolini´s groundbreaking arthouse-torture flick Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom. End of story..... I am going to have to catch my breath here, enjoying a stay in hell can be breathtaking!.
Almost 40 minutes of painstaking sexual ritualistic pleasure all wrapped up in suffocating blackness. Is Hot Chocolate too boring as sexual background music, maybe u ought to try Zoloft Evra... might spice it up? An incredibly intense album, recommended!. The CD is still available through their Bandcamp site!
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