B.skam - Stallbrunst
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Daniel Forsman (Ideal Father, Kontakt Service) is at it again with a new project on the Italian label Death In Venice. The debut Stallbrunst with Blodskam was released as a limited 30-copies cassette release. A cool-looking blood-colored cassette, with some Nordic 70s-vintage pornographic imagery on the inlay. And you guys might have thought that we are dealing with a fetish-driven HNW/ANW release?... Well, we are not! An intriguing Swedish thing between early death industrial and terrific heavy ambiance.
Minor note, because of the censure on social media I have decided to edit the photo and the name of the act (above). If I don´t do that, then the post will be removed.
The first track on the A-side is called... Lurking Inappropriately Outside Your Funeral (Secret Service Style) kind of takes me back to the names of tracks by early Nurse With Wound. Starts with a kind of looped sound of theatrical trumpets, murky noise layers of flesh-scraping death-industrial-soundscapes with additional (and creepy) multi-layered recorded samples. Lovely old-school industrial feel so far! True Swedish industrial you might say!
The second track Skinjob Knife Ritual Science Test (The Owls Have Cameras In Their Eyes) sounds and starts like a sinister thriller flick. Almost a kind of Twin Peaks sort of vibe going on. Love the recorded atmospheric background here, and the thumping death-industrial pulse sound wraps the whole thing up quite nicely. Excellent movie-sounding stuff with that industrial edge.
The third track Fumnling In The Sewers Of Idiot Canyon raises a slightly erotic ritualistic mood, combined with tons of heavy feedback and high-to-the-ceiling noise-ambient. You can actually sleep to this stuff, not that it is boring! Heavy, surreal, and quite hypnotic at the same time.
The fourth track City Buster Crows Rapist (2007 Hamburg Drug Den Prostitute Remix) is a truly depraved track. Funeral ambient noise with a nasty s/m video-nasty running in the background.
The fifth track Listen To The Sound of Pomegranates ´Til You Beaten To The Ground is the most rhythmic track on the A-side. Rhythmic and automatic machine noise dominates the whole track and reminds me of another Swedish project called Institut (if you remember them).
We flip the cassette and continue our journey into depravity on the B-side. The sixth track is called Gangrene Palm Brugmansia Eye, interesting title right kids?. Classic deep-ambient Brighter Death Now stuff here, right back to his Necrose Evangelicum album. Lots of ritualistic feedback and paranormal reverbed samples. This is really excellent! Truly classy stuff going on.
The seventh track Human Torture Rack Outta Nowhere continues with a relentless slice of skin-peeling noise. Imagine how it would/could sound if the guys from Texas Chainsaw Massacre would be a power-electronics act. That sort of feel!
The eighth track In Shape Plus Insane (Shit Version) is actually more of a harsh noise vein. Works as a sort of intermission from the death-industrial moods.
The last two tracks I will leave for the reader's imagination!
Woawww... This is a VERY good album. I didn´t have high hopes for this, mainly because of the pornographic approach of the recordings itself. But the moods, and creativity that have been put inside this album truly outshine my prejudiced nature. A great journey into the adventurous spirit of true depraved industrial music. Great album!
