En Nihil / And Through You I Found Nothing

Released on the 17th of February last year, And Through You I Found Nothing By En Nihil was an album released on Shrouded Recordings. Released as a limited cassette and CD-R, sadly not sold out! Can be acquired through Discogs (if you are lucky). For some reason, you cannot actually hear it on Shrouded Recordings Bandcamp site and it´s not on Youtube either. So you are basically (or I am) dealing with something which is under the radar, as we speak. Anyways, we are dealing with "only" 1 track which is 27 minutes long! The track is on the A-side and on the B-side as well. 

The track starts in the quiet sort of state. Raw and primal noise-ambient with a heavenly epic touch. Post-apocalyptic feel with a religious/spiritual sort of aesthetic. There is a distinct hiss on the tape (bad recording?), but then again... It adds up to the primal feel and the sound keeps floating out like ectoplasmic goo through your speakers. 

The epic and angelic intro ends and jumps straight into metallic harsh noise! At this point, I do think that a proper sound quality of the tape itself, would have been a good thing. This harsh-noise thing is an action-packed pee-wee with a sound (and expression) that really wants to break through that tape hiss. There are a lot of things right now happening that I would love to hear more clearly.

The harsh-noise things stop and enter into a... dungeon-synths recording in slow motion... hearing it while you are buried beneath some church. The feel of this recording holds the theme focused, definitely a clear focus on nothingness. The paranormal feel here feels real... and actually scary. You cannot actually hear the stuff 100%, but more sense it with your imagination. There are many comparisons with Brighter Death Now´s 1890 vinyl release here, which is also the strangest album by Brighter Death Now.

The next thing coming up are ritualistic beatings on something big and metallic, think that ritual scene in the second Indiana Jones flick!. The old-school death-industrial feel is strong here, almost with a nod or two to the likes of Megaptera and to the eldritch horror author H.P. Lovecraft. So far the album almost sounds like some sort of live-recording (Done in one take?). It still sticks to the theme folks.

Screaming and vocal-based harsh noise gets back at your face one more time, with a punishing and throbbing bass sound. Sounds like it was recorded through a metallic pipeline. Sounds pretty demonic if you ask me! All of a sudden there is a... buzz... moving from one speaker and to the other. Sounds like crickets! I know!... Because I have crickets in my basement (food for my tarantula). Cool-sounding distorted vocals end the track... and the album/track?! .. Damn! I actually wanted more!. Hell... I just have to turn the tape and listen to the same track on the B-side.

It´s a marvelous, epic, and grim journey through the dark side of the human psyche. You can have it in the background while watching an avant-garde flick like Begotten, you can listen to it in absolute pitch-black while having a good stout, you can hear it while reading eldritch horror. Tons of reasons to listen to it, although it does have issues with the sound quality although... the charm and the sincerity of it save the album to the very end. Actually quite breathtaking!

Bandcamp (label):

https://shroudedrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/and-through-you-i-found-nothing-3xcs-repress-w-cdr-exclusive-final-run-out-physically

Discogs (release):

https://www.discogs.com/En-Nihil-And-Through-You-I-Found-Nothing/master/2059387

 

    

 

Kadaver + Smother - Awaiting You At The Morgue

We return once again to one of the projects which we have been around for some time. Israel isn't really that known for either harsh noise, death industrial, or power electronics but Kadaver is one of the few blokes around that block which tries (Almost on a daily basis!) to inject a drop or two of sonic wickedness into your dreary lives. This time he has found a friend/act called Smother, which hasn't released anything so far... So this one is the first release with Smother, in the company of Kadaver. A limited 50 cassette released via Black Ring Rituals, 3 tracks about 43 minutes in total!

The first track is called Blood Patterns, which starts off with a movie sample of such. Sounds of distant cannons/explosions while someone is masturbating/having sex in a bathtub. All of this tranquility ends with an explosion of a screaching and chaotic harsh noise wall! There is a sound of something being cut inside a whirling grinding machine, while ritualistic and chanting voices can be heard in the background aswell. The mood is quite constant/static in a good way! The noise wall ends later on (turned down) while the grinding machine noises get a sound focus... Does actually sounds like something recorded being reversed and being slightly distorted as well. The noise wall returns once again with a vengeance, more dynamics attached this time. The ambient chanting can still be heard at this point, although almost drowned in the sickening torturous noise... And then it ends really suddenly!

The second track The Gods of Meander Vs the Men of Beelzebub... What? ... Gods of Meander... Who are they?!...(examining)... Ok, the internet tells me this :

Meander, Maeander, Mæander or Maiandros (Ancient Greek: Μαίανδρος) was a river god in Greek mythology, the patron deity of the Meander River (modern Büyük Menderes River) in Caria, southern Asia Minor (modern Turkey).

And we all know who Beelzebub is right?. Let´s have a look at that as well then shall we?! :

Beelzebub or Beelzebul is a name derived from a Philistine god, formerly worshipped in Ekron, and later adopted by some Abrahamic religions as a major demon. The name Beelzebub is associated with the Canaanite god Baal.

Hmmm... The worshipers of some Greek water god start a war with the worshiper of a Philistine god (which turned into a satanic pop-icon later on!). Ok!.

The track starts with another weird recording (from a movie again?!). Sounds of winds, and the sound of someone running through dirt while losing his breath. All of this gets replaced (except the windy sounds) by a hypnotizing and nerve-grinding tone of clinical proportions. A more static track than the former, things are more... still in here... if you know what I mean? (listen to the track!). Closer to being an HNW inspired piece. If you ask me. Sho will the battle then?... The Gods of a Greek Water god or the men of a Philistine god?... I think they all would die... that is if you take the sonic and static expression into consideration!

The last and final longest track called Self-Administered Rape Injection starts again with a nasty movie sample and dives straight into the most brutal harsh-noise treatment on the album. Imagine a fast circular saw built and made to grind and eat itself through steel, then add a microphone, record it, and turn the volume up! And this point, your brain reminds you that ... this track is actually 21 minutes and 39 seconds long! Bon appetit!

And that is all I will reveal regarding this album, made by Kadaver and Smother (note, not a split a colab!). A quick and brutal static attack on the senses and all that jazz. Not an epic pioneering piece of work, but it does the job if you suck for a well-delivered noise treatment. And as I said before, this one is placed in the static noise department... not the frantic and chaotic department.

Bandcamp (label):
https://blackringrituals.com/album/awaiting-you-at-the-morgue


Bandcamp (band):
https://kadaver.bandcamp.com/


Facebook (band):
https://www.facebook.com/michael.zolotov?fref=nf

Jugendwerkhof / Genus Inkasso 

Another tape which I also received from the Low Life High Volume label, the same label which gave us Jugendwerkhof. This one is also with Jugendwerkhof in good company with another act called Genus Inkasso, in other words... a split. Each act delivers its take on abstract-sound-brutalism on each side of the tape. Jugendwerkhof on side A, and Genus Inkasso on the B-side. Each track is almost 15 minutes in length, which gives you 30 minutes of utter destructive delight, tape release is limited to 30 copies. Love the graphical cover-artwork as well, showing some human figures having some mind-controlling lines attached...apparently losing control of some kind?... Anyways!

The first track with Jugendwerkhof is called Gnadenverheerer (Mercy Ravager) starts in a subtle way... the sort of quietness one would expect before a storm. Then it starts slowly... industrial bleeping sounds, metallic trash yard noises, an Arabic-sounding sort of trumpet, traces of human voices, and all this is built on top of a solid build (and abstract) harsh-noise foundation. Subtle and brutal at the same time, solid but abstract, static but chaotic... I could continue. This recording pulls the listener into all of these contradictions. It totally works, and the raw sound is brilliant! The whole damn thing sounds like a demon trying to claw itself out from some kind of old-tech machinery... literally!.

Next up is Genus Inkasso which their track is called The Dirt, the Quiet, the Peace. Also has a nice industrial-noise sort of subtle beginning, which then descents directly into pure mayhem. More in the dynamic noise-wall section with a mesmerizing rhythmic noise monotony. It pulses and it breeds, feels, and sounds really organic. Not as in-your-face like Jugendwerkhof, but being way more of a chilling mind-fuck track. At times it does have a certain death-industrial sort of appeal to it, the heavy distortions and the rhythmic machine sounds. Love the ambient drone ending here, after the harsh treatment of sound the drone will lift the listener a few inches from the ground (or chair!). A great and adventurous noise track with lots of variations in sound, more of that, please!.

A great release, a great tape. Low Life High Volume is a great label I will keep my eye on, and so should you. As I said before, not being the greatest harsh-noise fan BUT... These guys are inventive (really!), I love the way they put atmosphere before action into the direct sound of harsh noise! So what are you waiting for?!. Get that tape before your neighbor does!

Bandcamp (label):

https://lowlifehighvolume.bandcamp.com/album/split-3

Official website (label):

http://lowlifehighvolume.biz/home.html

 

    

 Putrefaction Orchestra - Sequential Stages of Decomposition

Another from Danish label Section 1, a new act with its debut. Sequential Stages of Decomposition by Putrefaction Orchestra (sounds awesome right??). Filled on the A-side, filled on the B-side (50 minutes tape), limited to 50 physical copies which can be obtained via Section 1s website (Link below!). Another worthy note, really love the texture of the thick inlay...

The first track called Sarkoma (Cancer) gives you a proper introduction to the album. You are right in a world that isn´t that far away from the main opening theme from the classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre from 1974. Spine-tingling post-mortem noise with a paranormal edge greets you welcome in the morgue. A classic old-school death-industrial/ambient sound which takes you back to that classic Slaughter Production sound. You can almost sense that horrific mood, someone is sharpening and cleaning their dissection tools while dead bodies wait for their treatment on the cold dissection table. A VERY picturesque sound, very convincing!. 

The second track called Sequential Stages of Decomposition moves further down the labyrinth-like basements of some basement (or asylum). Kind of makes me think of Lars Von Trier´s Riget / Kingdom. The sound of living metal moving around in a huge cellar-like room, while torturous sound-frequencies haunts the very air. Whoever said that cellars can be quiet, stay quiet and open your ears!

The third track Decay of Organic Materials starts with a sound that sounds a bit like... something being fried on a pan. Later on, a car engine begins to exhaust gas into the room while a mysterious sample is running in the background. Grinding, pulsating heavy-electronics!

Fans of early Megaptera will love this!.

The Fourth track Schizophrenia Psychosis starts on the B-side. A rumbling (under-the-ground) earthy-sound, creepy metallic reverbs, a slightly flanged and psychedelic (and slow) windy-sound. A very subtle and quiet piece worth exploring with TONS of mood! 

The Fifth track simply called Untitled is a piece of utter monotonic electronic brilliance with disturbing ritualistic undercurrents. Sounds a bit like Swedish act Lille Roger from back in the day, which is a compliment, people! Love the weird clattering distortions (Dusty needle on a vinyl player) which happens only on the left speaker, freaked me out actually!

The last track Morthogenesis ends the album in a grand horrific and morbid way. The weird clattering noises from the fifth tracks continue here as well, I don´t think that it was meant to be there... BUT... it actually gives the damn thing an extra touch of edge.     

And woaww! What a damn treat! Good to hear that someone can sit down and have a clear focus on a certain sound and mood, and deliver it 100%. It´s a pure treat for any fans of classic death-industrial/black-ambient (Atrax Morgue, Megaptera, Lille Roger, BDN, etc). Really one of those that you don´t want to miss!.    

Website (label):

https://sektion1.bigcartel.com/product/putrefaction-orchestra-sequential-stages-of-decomposition

Interview with Nigel Ayers 

of Nocturnal Emissions

Nocturnal Emissions shouldn´t be a stranger to the average Kalteldur reader. An act legendary cult act that has been active since 1980. From highly experimental post-industrial, warped and metallic disco, shamanic ritual music, proto-drone, raw and spacy ambient moods, rhythmic technoid moments...I could go on. Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly have mentioned them as being an influence, and further on to dark ambient pioneers like Raison D´être. Nocturnal Emissions have (in my own words) inspired every aspect and genre within modern experimental (and industrial) music. 

I just noticed that Nigel was doing these videos on Youtube where he would talk about Nocturnal Emissions (and among other things). And I thought, why not do an interview with him? So I did some questions (below) and he answered with a video (Brilliant!). I have added some of the other videos for this interview that seems relevant.         

 First and foremost, something about the actual start and creation of the act Nocturnal Emissions in 1980. How and why were Nocturnal Emissions created?

After Tissue of Lies you did Fruiting Body, can you tell us about this album?

Drowning In A Sea of Bliss, can u tell us about that album?

Can you tell us a bit about the Duty Experiment album?

Can you tell us about the Cathedral album?

Where did you find your ideas/inspiration back in those early days?

The amazing, memorable, and shocking cover-artwork for the re-released Drowning In A Sea of Bliss, what is the reason to change the cover-artwork for it?

You started as a noisy, political, and experimental post-industrial act. Later on, you were creating shamanic-based ambient/drone/ritual-music (...actually my personal favorite era). What was the reason for the change of sound and direction?

Proudest moment/recording with Nocturnal Emissions and why?

Any future plans? New albums, re-issues?

And thanks to Nigel for this great interview and insight into the world of Nocturnal Emissions, do yourself a favor and explore some of the releases on the official Bandcamp site!

Bandcamp (band):

https://nocturnalemissions.bandcamp.com/

Official website:

http://www.earthlydelights.co.uk/

Facebook (band):

https://www.facebook.com/Nocturnal-Emissions-44070841065/

 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.

Bandcamp (label):

https://marbrenegre.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-6

      

  

Documentary Review: Klub Kranium/Dark Blossom by Hedvig Funeral

Klub Kranium/Dark Blossom is a danish debut documentary film by Frigge Fri.

The documentary portrays three young people, Josephine, Mareridt, and Jay from Denmark who find friendship through their shared alternative lifestyle and the struggles that friendship brings through balancing love, friendship, and religion. The documentary follows Josephine who doesn't feel she belongs in any “normal” social gathering and the people surrounding her in her very small hometown of Fjerritslev, in northern Denmark/Jutland. 

The start of the documentary is somewhat loud as a promising beginning but as the film moves forward it becomes duller with not many conversations between the protagonists and oozes out by a lot of small clips and mobile phone clips that doesn't fill the screen and leaves a “debut” feel to it. 

As a viewer one might feel that a lot of the original content and far more exciting scenes and happenings are cut out and the experience of the viewer feels like... that too much is left out. That could have filled the empty spaces between no conversations and small clips.

Although as a viewer, I find the story of Josephine really good and shows how a young person struggles with the balance in the fight between friendship and her love life. I feel a disconnect between the title, the content, and the subculture as I also feel the documentary took a “wrong turn” or chose another path later on and the meaning behind it was another, to begin with, and it really shows in the storyline and clips that could just as well have left out the Alternative Subculture theme or lifestyle and followed three everyday people in Denmark.

Director: Frigge Fri

Producer: Mathilde Hviid Lippmann

Film duration: 1 hour and 20 min

Release date: 24th of April, 2021

Language: Danish/English subtitles

Two out of five coffins from me 

Official website :

https://cphdox.dk/da/film/dark-blossom-da/

 Anaru - Silent Hunter

We have had the pleasure of Anaru a couple of times on Kalteldur, and it is always a great pleasure to do again. If you don´t know Anaru, then I can reveal to you that it is a Lithuania-based industrial solo project which started around 2017. Sort of surreal experimental technoid act with a nod or two to the early cultural cyberpunk-aesthetics (William Gibson to Japanese toons like Akira etc...)  This time we have something in a classic CD format, an album with 9 tracks and is almost 40 minutes in length.

First track is called Atėjo laikas Galaktiką ginti peiliu! (translated Its Time To Defend The Galaxy With A Knife!). A rumbling, noisy and rhythmic industrial piece with a lovely doom-laden synth-melody in the background. Love the weird noises/sounds here, lots of interesting loops, and eerie stuff going on. The sound is kind of high-tech and primitive at the same time, in other words... lovely balanced between the chaotic and the structured.

The second track Alkokareivio-samurajaus Ataka (Attack of the Alokaarii samurai Border) works with futuristic sounds meeting up with sounds from the second world war! City-alarms going on, sinister-sounding knife-japing synth-keys, ritualistic undertones, warped radio noises etc. Sounds very chaotic, but it is very well structured if you ask me. A lot of ideas being mixed up here, but it works so far. 

The Third track Ritual Schizophrenia Campaign (Takes time to enter the original track title) moves closer to a kind of Deutsch Nepal sound. An interesting sample is taken from some film-noir hardboiled Detective flick and gets mixed into cool technoid rhythmic eerieness. Love the vibrating metallic sounds going on, kind of a David Lynch/Twin Peaks sort of a wibe going on here aswell. 

The Fourth track Infinite Despair Factory Staff might just be my favorite track on the album. Fans of early Autechre anyone?. Interesting and messy robotic rhythms clashes and bangs while a slightly melancholic and hypnotic toy piano (and a haunting synth tune) goes in the background. It´s fxxxxxx great, heard it a couple of times now!. 

The Fifth track Blood Citadel Intermission is a lovely and futuristic ambient-techno track. High to the ceiling while giving a good opportunity to the listener to reach a certain aesthetic of delight. 

The sixth track Prophets of a technocratic future offers metallic clashes and haunting melodies. Kind of takes me back to some of the eerie technoid pieces which you could hear on Cold Meat Industry´s The Karmanik Collection!. 

The rest of the album (3 other tracks) is for the listener to explore! And they are worth exploring. Silent Hunter is a grim and merciless journey into a dark and cold future, where everything and everyone is ruled by a technocratic elite. You can already see it now as it is happening. A post C19 society with Iphones all-around, no contact with anyone just in contact with the information from your iPhone (which is controlling you!). Just me rambling offcourse, but do yourself a favor and check this album out!. Also out on a limited CD release ( SeeBlack Ring Ritual Records Bandcamp link below ).

Bandcamp (label):

https://blackringrituals.com/album/silent-hunter

Bandcamp (band):

https://anarup.bandcamp.com/album/cold-zero

     

 

 

 

 En Nihil - Time Destroys Everything

You might have heard of En Nihil, maybe with the 1997 death-industrial classic Death Keeps CD which was released via Red Stream?... Well, this project is still alive! After Death Keeps the project had a 13 years pause, and until 2010 there have been numerous releases on numerous different labels. One of the latest En Nihil releases ended up in my Kalteldur-review-mailbox, the album title is Time Destroys Everything. Released via cult label Deathbed Tapes... the cassette tape is already sold out, but that shouldn't stop you from checking out the digital album via Bandcamp.    

The first track (all tracks are nameless) starts with a subtle humming bass... the kind of aural paranormal bass sound one might hear inside a coffin (when buried offcourse). Later on a thumping, distorted and flesh-scraping-chopped-up-sound moves up and down like a drill while additional (and lovely) layers of deep ambient sounds and harsh distortions wraps it all up! It´s terrific and pure death-industrial to the core, more focused on the early BDN-sound than the later power-electronics sound. 

The second track moves us even closer to that classic, powerful and depressive BDN sound (Necrose Evangelicum). The sound of a bone-crushing machine working on some subterranean dungeon of pure torture, in the background there are wails and screams from souls in hell... begging for release! Everything is cracking and bubbling here, with lots of action and lots of that heavy-industrial sound!

The third track has a sound that sounds like someone exhaling their final breath, which then ends with a sound that sounds like a bomb that just has been dropped... this is looped in a rhythmic way! High pitched sounds of psychedelic morbidness prevent you from escape! Very nice, very nice indeed! 

We continue with the B-side, the fourth track that is. A clear focus on thumping heavy-ambient-moods! Might just be the most rhythmic aggressive and cha piece on the album, really love the interesting and horrific layers of sound going on in the background! Perfect executed death-industrial! 

The fifth (and last track) track moves more into the territory of free-styled harsh-noise. A grinding and lovely moment on the torture table. Every distorted sound feels like shattered glass which rips through your senses, imagine a looped car crash in slow-motion? 

5 tracks through 5 places in hell. Slowly building up from the first track and ending in a chaotic moment of pure delight. A great album, and great to experience that someone is doing something which actually sounds as great as Brighter Death Now. Have you forgotten the classic death-industrial sound? Check up on Time Destroys Everything!. 

Bandcamp (label):

https://deathbedtapes.bandcamp.com/album/time-destroys-everything

Discogs (band):

https://www.discogs.com/artist/75588-En-Nihil

   

 Parthenfelder - Enduring To The End

I have just discovered a new Danish label called Section 1, and I have also discovered that Section 1 releases some highly obscure releases with new and unknown acts (Which I haven´t read or heard about until now!). Nevertheless! One of the cassettes I received from Section 1 which I gave a listen to, was the debut by a power-electronics act called Parthenfelder, and the album is called Enduring To The End. I am not 100% sure who the band members are (No info on the World Wide Web!), but I have my suspicions... but offcourse I am not gonna tell you!. A double-sided cassette, filled with atmospheric and hypnotizing concentrated anguish! 

First track Deliverance Of Tourture... Tourture?. Maybe they meant Torture instead of Tourture (Or did they?)... Something about a tour being... well... like torture... oh never mind. The track starts with a serious spoken-voice recording/sample with a moody and doom-laden synth in the background, I suspect it is a sample taken from some old documentary related to WW2. Then the track starts off (just like that!). Primitive and hellish drone noises... a bit like the engines of old fighter airplanes (Diving bomber aero-planes!). Looped and animalistic sounds of human voices. Hidden sound-activity and spiritual vocals lurk deep in the background. A flawless power-electronics intro-track. Very German old school! (Anenzephalia, Ex-Order)  

The second track Abstersion ( the action or process of cleansing ) is a track that sounds...very cold and compact. Incredible dense and incredible...mesmerizing. The recorded sound of a huge machine room in the lowest parts of the earth... As a fan of Doctor Who, I cannot help thinking back to the cybermen's early episodes. They too ALSO did the action of cleansing... sort of. 

The Third track Blinded By Ideology continues the looped machine-anguish with a focus on the vocals, very much in the same vein with Anenzephalia and Ex-Order. Not the aggressive noisy Whitehouse stuff, but more in the sort of monotonic and moody death-industrial sound. And yup, so far... it sounds like the real deal folks!. 

The Fourth track Study On Hanging Rats (and the last track on the A-side) drives a pulsating hot needle in your bloody skull. Looped throbbing noises and flesh-scraping distorted moods... Fxxxxx great!  

I think (maybe) there is maybe a hidden track on the A-side which isn´t mentioned in the booklet. So far I have counted 5 tracks on the A-side, and the booklet tells me that there are 4 tracks. No Matter. This track might just be the track called Stratagem (Deceiving and outwitting the enemy). Another decent, intense, and relentless ambient-noise track. Still maintaining that old-school Germanic sound!

                                    

"B-side" continues with Abondon All Hope (On Discogs it called Abandon!). A broody drone moves (slowly) up and down in close connection with the heavy wall of an analog bass sound. Love the effects on the vocals here again folks!.

The second track on the B-side called Enduring To The End. Continues in the same fashion as the previous track, just more menacing. Fans of Brighter Death Now´s Inner war should take notice!. Long and very epic!   

The fourth track In This Land (Album title), cools it down with atmospheric harshness and aggressive ambient vocals. The lovely heavy-industrial sound here (very metallic!). The perfect mood/sound for describing a battlefield in the first World War!

Fourth track (and last track) Outro gets back to that German bomber aero-plane sound, or just the sound of fighter airplanes on a hangar... all humming together to create a cacophonic wall of destructive sound. Something going on in the background here sounds interesting! 

An album that delivers something... well... nothing new really. But, why be new all the time?! This album delivers a sound that I think is a rather overlooked style/genre in the world of industrial and noise music. A style that borrows something from early power-electronics, industrial, and what we could call proto death-industrial?. An ambient version of power-electronics?. At one time another act (Dagda Mor) from Germany called the style Cold Electronics. Whatever Parthenfelder delivers the thing like pure perfection. Sounds like an old school in the new school, it does the thing!

Discogs (label):

https://www.discogs.com/label/1637277-Sektion1

Official Site (label):

https://sektion1.bigcartel.com/

   

 

Lyke Wake - At The End Of The Dream, Where Nothing Remains / Symphonic Noise

 

A new full-length Lyke Wake has hit the streets. A 1-track 65.19 minutes epic journey into the underworld, or in some esoteric location hidden between heaven and hell?. At The End Of The Dreams is out on CD via Lyke Wake´s own label Aspectic Noise.

The album starts in the same matter as previous released Lyke Wake albums, quite epic and with that quite retro-Italian-horror feel. I do think (for some reason) that I am sensing a bigger sense of power here. I do think that whatever he is doing, he is actually getting better at it. The finger-work on the synths? The power of improvising? The method of sounding like the real deal maybe?... Maybe if we combine all these into one answer, then maybe we are getting closer to that answer which we seek. It has a lot in comment with Lyke Wake´s Crawling Through The Abyss Of Pain, although this one has a lot more... muscle to it. I do remember that Crawling Through ended being one of the Kalteldur best releases of 2018, which gives you an understanding of why I am sitting here being... surprised that this one is just that much better. There are also some new touches to be heard within, I am not much for female opera-vocals BUT... the ones used here... hit the nail perfectly home on the board! Even the synth-driven violins sound great! The single-track also delivers some mind-blowing psychedelic harshness-sounds as well. 

Religious, spiritual, meditative, atmospheric, engulfing, cavernous, eldritch, hypnotizing, mesmerizing, psychedelic, otherworldly,  cosmic, heavenly, godlike stuff!... ( I could go on! ).

Just imagine what it would sound like if Tangerine Dream or Keith Emerson (in the 70s) did a soundtrack to an Italian Fulci-flick, and then just add a tiny drop of esotericism... and there u have it!. I fxxxxxx love it! Fans of Runes Order, Raison d´être, Tangerine Dream, and dungeon synth should seek it out!       

Facebook (band):

https://www.facebook.com/Lyke-Wake-116636291712908

Official page (band+label):

https://lykewake.wixsite.com/lyke-wake?fbclid=IwAR1xMJND48bSQytlWxyPSvENEjKJwd9AqxPaPsdwGFF3JshCWkA_dvwIG7o