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Black Earth - Gnarled Ritual of Self-Annihilation LP (Cyclic Law: 134thCycleLP)
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Spanish ritualistic industrial sorcerers BLACK EARTH return with "Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation" - a sophomore full-length of unreal cinematic sonic disembodiment, conceived with the aim of turning the listener into a sacrificial centrepiece to a surreal ritual nightmare. Following in the steps of their debut LP "A Cryptic Howl of Morbid Truth" and of their followup mini-album "Diagrams of a Hidden Order", on "Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation" Black Earth further refine and sharpen their horrific sonic blade, slicing through shadows and darkness with more skill and mastery than ever before to reveal a dimension beyond of incomprehensible ritual abandon. As they first weave and then slice and dissect their impenetrable veil, a sonic ritual of abject disfigurement begins to take shape before the listener, as the strokes and gashes of black metal, industrial, noise and ritual drone intersect erratically and hypnotically, painting an hallucinatory arabesque of absolute dread and deformity. As the album's wicked spires envelops them like a fog of snakes, the listener finds themselves immersed into an hallucinating aural delirium of complete disembodiment and self-implosion, in which they feel simultaneously out of body and helplessly trapped and crushed within themselves at the same time.. $21.0
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Black Front - We March 12inch Pic Disc (Corvus Records: CRVS15LP)
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Four track vinyl. It has been 2 years since Black Front released their first full lenght album, “The Forgotten.” During these 2 years the world contiued on its path to become an even more violent place where people are killed in large numbers at one time .On A side you can hear anthem-like track “Death march”. The band uses the term ‘Death March’ (i.e. making a group of people walk until they die,) as in Armenian Genocide, as a metaphor for what is happening today. Devastating and hopeless cry of a soul on a death march. To the end of he world. The music is slow, heavy repeating solid riff and march-like machine drumming. The second song is called “ Black heart and red sky” it is an ode to one of our favourite movies, Milcho Manchevski’s “Before The Rain” and perhaps to our Balkan roots, bringing the theme of forced departure full circle. On B-side you can hear 2 remixes-the first one is done by ambient artist called Mytrip-and is based on “Death march” track. Haunting and scary, while the second one is titled “180 degrees” by dark ambient artist SHRINE (remix of the first song “90 degrees” from the debut album of Black Front.) has more ambient feeling. This printed as a picture disc on heavyweight vinyl with sound mastered my J.Plotkin (O.L.D.) will give you the right mood. $6.0
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Blitzkrieg Baby - Genocidal Sextasy LP (Cloister Recordings: Crus55)
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In a year already defined by society coming to a standstill at the behest of a global pandemic, the arrival of Blitzkrieg Baby’s new LP Genocidal Sextacy commands rumination with an acerbic irony. Norwegian artist Kim Sølve founded the project in the early 2000’s, but only in the past decade, one often defined by systemic and civil chaos, did BB make its recorded debut with the Porous Norvegicus full-length. Since then, Sølve has carried forth BB as a timely exploration of humanity’s hubris and callousness, a bleak and pessimistic trawl through the dregs of mankind’s selfishness and cruel arrogance that paradoxically operates as a cathartic confrontation of 21st century existential dread.
Sonically, Genocidal Sextasy implants a sense of sardonic tension into a period filled with political division, first-world entitlement, and the specter of a deadly contagion that has literally upended notions of comfort and normalcy. Rooted in both the sequenced thump of EBM with the dusty specter of death industrial grime and dark ambient unease, Sølve and his BB collaborators (Bjeima, The Right Reverend Mr. B, America Thomas, and Frederic Arbour) have crafted a steady and unhurried oscillation, rhythmic tracks mirroring a sluggish dance of the dead clamoring for reconciliation that never manifests. Everything from Laibach’s militaristic stringency to even Alice Cooper’s gallows theatrics signify themselves over the albums eleven tracks. Vocals appear sporadically over half of the album, the guttural chants (see “Piggy” and “Kill Them All”) echoing the misanthropic sentiments embedded even in the instrumental pieces (“Open Season On Homo Sapiens,” “Fuck Toy For The Death Patrols”). And like all works of art realized with upmost conviction and patience, Genocidal Sextasy commands scrutiny not as a thrown-together repository of fragments and thoughts, but as a narrative-driven journey through the haze of apocalypse and humanity inevitably paying for its destructive arrogance.
Whether audiences in this fraught year find Genocidal Sextasy as a confrontational purge of relentless trauma or a too-close-for-comfort slap in the face of extremely timely anxiety will perhaps depend on the person, but none can deny that not many other albums demand its audience face down the demons within and hopefully search for a light at the end of the tunnel without dooming themselves to infinite repetitions of historical mistakes. Presumably, Blitzkrieg Baby would hope for something similar, but it’s doubtful they’ll be holding their breath. In the meantime, they’ve provided another tough pill to swallow that will no doubt leave fans of uncompromising industrial and extreme electronics clamoring for another fix.. $12.0
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