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In-scale sequences of synth tones play, and make way for a pulse-wave-containing patch which plays a melancholic melody. The sequenced notes play more chaotically, and guitar plays a chain of melodies which are obscured by the sequences of note…
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Cult Of White Noise – Utopia Deferred
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A loud, low, distorted synth starts out Utopia Deferred in “Chthonic Attack”, which is soon accompanied by low rumblings. Then a subtle flanger is put on the synthesizer. A tone comes in and plays a drone accompanied by the synth, and is so…
Axebreaker – Brutality in Stone
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Axebreaker’s Brutality in Stone starts with the track “Disorder (for Alan Berg)”, which begins with echoing sweeps of high-resonance-filtered noise, which gives way to an ever approaching wall of noise which mixes with it and becomes stro…
Lavatone – The Blue Boar
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The album starts with "Monolith", which begins with a very distorted bass note that thunders in with a low two note choir melody, and this is repeated four times until a metallic sounding drone comes in over the top. After four more repetitions…
Vanity Productions – Memories of Kazan
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“Polaroids (Feat. Tonje Terese)” begins with a fractured melody in a rhythm with an aesthetic of error, and then moves into what would seem to be a more pedestrian melody upon cursory listening, but is actually quite complex, using fracture…
MASSS / Wasted Cathedral
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This is a split tape. One side and one song is done by MASSS, and the other side and two songs are by Wasted Cathedral.
In “5 Chambers” by MASSS, a synth string drone starts and is sustained with a slight bit of filter modification provi…
Un Bosque Noruego – Gwahir
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The sound of synthetic wind blows as a voice and string-like synth fades in and gently provides melody, and then fades into a droning pad which slowly develops intertwined with the melody, which eventually stops, leaving a secondary melody which is…
Sacred Oak – DRONEDEMO
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In “Frozen Rest” a percussive sound happens, and then a distorted bass tone appears, and then a guitar comes in, unflinchingly playing the same note. Static appears, then disappears as this occurs. The sound of a guitar pick can be heard, occas…
Ars Sonor and The Implicit Order – The Prison of Souls
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The Prison of Souls starts its first track "Level 01 - Inception" with a sad sounding ambience that comes fading in, accompanied by what sound like things that could have been voices at one time at the edge of the mix. Then, an instrument vague…
Lowered – Arche (For Singing Bowls)
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A fairly low tone from a singing bowl plays, and after a short period is joined by another tone. Then, a singing bowl is struck and rings out over the two constant tones. After fading out and a short period has passed, it rings out again in the…