This Dismal World

Various Artists
Black Horizons
General | Apr 2014

Reviews

The Grunt
Reviewed 2014-04-17
Anemone Tube vs Dissecting Table // This Dismal World
RIYL: Einsturzende Neubauten, Swans,
TAGS: LOCAL LABEL, Germany, Japan, Dark Ambient, Old School Industrial, Noise

Cassette sent to us by BLACK HORIZONS. This is a great split with, IMO, Dissecting Table really nailing it. Mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate).

Anemone Tube - Dark and abstract. Nothing to hold on to. The second track is very enjoyable.
1.) (9:54) Slow scraping and rumbling dark ambient. Minimum Entropy.
2.) (6:11) + Pulsing falling sound in background with harsh-but-not-too-harsh noise textures on top. Echoing male chant.

Dissecting Table - This track is perfect. Old-school-ish industrial masterpiece. This is why I became a DJ -- to find music like this.
3.) (19:00) + + + + Oh fuck yeah! Clanging metal "beat", ominous esoteric male group chanting throughout, weird 8-bit percolating noises…this track has it all. Harsh distorted vocals kick in around 3:30 and the pandemonium increases. Backs off a little around 7:30. At 11:30 the textures / ambient drop out from below and it's just banging metal and chanting vocals…so fucking good. Last three minutes switch it up with the textures instead of the banging and vocals.
-The Grunt

Recent airplay

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Brownian MotionApr 23, 2014
1000 Tones
DeathcrushApr 21, 2014

Charting

2014-04-18 — 2014-06-20 Classical/Experimental
Week EndingAirplays
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May 18 2
Apr 27 2

Track listing

1. In The Mausoleum
2. From Anthropocentrism To Demonocentrism
3. 1000 Tones