Black Earth – Diagrams Of A Hidden OrderLabel: Black Plagve – Infect18Format: CD, Mini-Album, Limited EditionCountry: USReleased: 02 Jul 2016Style: Industrial, Noise, Black Metal Debut digital recording for Spain’s cryptic collective Black Earth that continues the path laid down by 2014’s well received “A Cryptic Howl of Morbid Truth” cassette (Graceless Recordings). “Diagrams of a Hidden Order” presents us with three tracks showcasing their turbulent strain of blackened noise, that stretches the boundaries of black metal, death metal and dark ambient respectively, thus amplifying these genres into darker territory few have explored. Within the turbulence of chaos and bleakness, there exists fleeting form and (un)structure that is shattered and rebuilt…
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Beyond Enclosure – Dungeon Of Total Void
Beyond Enclosure – Dungeon Of Total VoidLabel: Malignant Records – TumorCD98Format: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: USReleased: 12 Aug 2016Style: Industrial, Noise, Power Electronics Prominent S&M inspired electronics is not a new theme, but it has been a long time since such a vital voice has arisen. Enter Beyond Enclosure. With their debut recording Dungeon of Total Void, this Portuguese duo fronted by Samantha Diabolik with the assistance of Andre Coelho (of the now defunct Sektor 304 and operating here as “The Analyst”), have assembled an imposing homage to discomfort, pain, and pleasure. Built around a foundation of subversive and deviant themes, the eight tracks here undulate and throb with malfunctioning…
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Gnawed – Pestilence Beholden
Gnawed – Pestilence Beholden Label: Malignant Records – TUMORCD97Format: CD, Album Country: USReleased: Sep 2016Style: Industrial, Power Electronics Since its inception in 2009, Grant Richardson’s Gnawed has propelled itself into the top tier of heavy electronics and death industrial with a stream of high quality releases over a variety of formats. For his 3rd full length disc, Pestilence Beholden, the template set forth by prior works remains intact, but is dragged down into an even darker space, this time enriched by added layers of foreboding atmospherics and foggy ambience. Make no mistake, this is Gnawed through and through, but Pestilence Beholden is even more sculpted and refined than before, finding…
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Phragments – All Towers Must Fall
Phragments – All Towers Must FallLabel: Malignant Records – TumorCD92, Construct.Destroy.Collective – noneFormat: CD, AlbumReleased: 01 Feb 2017Style: Dark Ambient The all new, fifth full-length album of Phragments is unmistakably dark ambient in nature, yet the overall feeling of the songs is more industrial this time. Moving a step further into harsher territory, “All Towers Must Fall” brings together dark ambience, heavily treated field recordings, classical instruments and also analogue synths, all echoing with orchestral grandeur. Phragments still follow a rather abstract and minimalist path, but this time the compositions have a touch of subtle chaos. With the atmosphere ranging from brooding to menacing, “All Towers Must Fall” is a…
