By: Anders

Posted: Sep 8, 2005

When this album revealed it sounds, I became quite surprised, it wasn't at all as I had expected. Dark droning doom industrial noise emerged from the speakers and soon set me back in trance-like condition, following the breaking rhythms and noisy soundscapes as a feather caught by the wind.

This is extremely dark, and somehow soothing in a strange way… The music creates a vortex and sucks the listener into it and when one gets there, there is no way back. Some of the invoked atmospheres are quite scary and eerie, the compositions are really well made. Even though all the darkness, the droning and the cold industrial machine-like sounds, the music possesses something hooking that catches on and keeps the listener's interest in check. There is substance to the tracks, though they are also very soft in the constructions, in the sense that you never know where you have them, as soon as you think you have figured the rhythm or basic structure out, it changes to something completely different.

The music is layered with a cold and raw guitar, simple and effective power chords, many samples of various noises, all disturbing, grim and cold. The programmed drums seldom sound as drums, but industrial effects straight from a huge factory, again a very disturbing fact that adds a really eerie edge to the atmosphere. The vocals are frustrated and manic screams on top of the layers of noises, evil, grim and drilling trough skin and bones.

This release is not for the fainthearted and the review hasn't described the effects the atmospheres and the huge and evil as hell soundscapes can have on the listener. This has to be heard, and felt. A really strong and supreme album the French Frédéric Sacri has made, he is one hell of a composer and maker of electronic droning music, when judging on this album, this will haunt me a lot for some time to come!

Rating: 9/10

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