TREPANERINGSRITUALEN Perfection & Permanence LP

TREPANERINGSRITUALEN Perfection & Permanence LP

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(Cold Spring)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
   Now available on black vinyl with printed inner sleeve, in a limited edition of five hundred copies.
    Over the past few years, Swedish noise artist Thomas Ekelund has been amassing a sizable discography of cassette releases under his Trepaneringsritualen project, exploring a melange of morbid imagery, occult subjects, apocalyptic atmosphere and magic ritual through his blasts of pounding, often crushing death industrial murk tinged with the cold fury and visual aesthetics of Scandinavian black metal. It's only recently that his music has been issued in larger editions that we can actually get our hands on, though, and his latest disc Perfection & Permanence is probably his most high profile release so far, coming out on the esteemed UK industrial label Cold Spring.
    That classic Cold Meat death industrial sound is just the starting point for Trepaneringsritualen's explorations into death-worship, expanding consciousness and occult symbolism. Ekelund's sound trawls much blacker waters, combining hypnotic mechanical throb with a scathing, black metal-esque vocal assault, rumbling ritualistic drones wrapping around the rusted-hulk machinery, black pulsations of distorted synthesizer emanating from deep in the mix. It's genuinely heavy, the sound huge and rhythmic, an evil machine-dirge belching black throbbing malice, evil processed vocals locked into prayer like recitation, blasphemies welded to bitter electronics and garbled dronescapes. Huge thumping rhythms sudden emerging on tracks like "Alone/A/Cross/Abyss" that are, god help us, almost danceable, a muffled tribal pounding that loops infinitely beneath those demonic vocals, while other tracks slip into smoldering fields of electronic filth and power-line hum inhabited by ghastly whispers and clanging metal echoing in the distance, like some industrial dub track stretched and slowed to a nightmarish dirge, creeping across a plane of diseased electronic drift.
    And then there's "The Seventh Man", which suddenly shifts into an even heavier grinding death-groove, howling vocals locking into an infectious chantlike cadence, blasts of low-end heaviness reverberating over a steady, monstrous percussive pulse, the whole thing sounding like some classic industrial metal band like Godflesh or Pitch Shifter turning black and rotten, muffled under a mountain of putrid low-fi ambiance. And yet that stuff is also amazingly catchy, the closest I've heard this sort of death industrial get to sounding downright anthemic; both "Konung Krönt I Blod" and "He Who Is My Mirror" are in a similar vein, pounding oil drum percussion and booming tribal rhythms erupting into an almost Test Dept.-like fervor, howling vocals belting out the instantly catchy chorus and making you wish that the album had included lyrics. Distorted synths spit out a menacing riff that almost sounds black metal-esque, and from there the album drifts into emptiness, floating out across a lightless void, a yawning abyss that resounds with the rumble of distant thunder, swirled in plumes of sonic ectoplasma.
    No wonder fans of malevolent industrial music have been flipping out over Trepaneringsritualen's malignant murk; this stuff is right up there with Mz.412 in my opinion, employing black metal aesthetics to a similar extent, but with those moments of surprising catchiness lodged within the grinding ritualistic deathscapes - easily one of the best bands in the death/black industrial realm right now.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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