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The album Mental Exhaustion Is A Sign That My Brain Is Afraid Of Something by Yasuyuki Uesugi starts with the track “My Dreams Symbolize My Distorted Spiritual World”. The track begins with a harshly distorted ambience with a resonant filte…
Month: April 2020
Transmit – Temporal Season
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Transmit’s Temporal Season begins with the track “Slow Poke”, where a pulsing, bass-y semi-wall of noise starts, and soon is accompanied by very high pitched, but quieter sounds. Then, the pulsing is altered and made more intense briefly, …
Bastian Void & Errant Space – Bastian Void & Errant Space
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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…
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…