THEOLOGIAN A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real LP

THEOLOGIAN A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real LP

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(Redscroll / Nothing Under The Sun)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***


DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     Here's another vinyl release from the mighty Theologian, following that killer vinyl edition of Some Things Have To Be Endured that we put out through C-Blast last year. Half of this album was previously available in a preliminary form on a limited CDR, but for the new vinyl version of A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real, the album is fleshed out further with two additional tracks, "Surface Of The Real" and "The Sun Failed To Rise Today". Featuring vocal, noise, and drum machine contributions from David Castillo of NY sludge metallers Primitive Weapons and guest electronics from Daniel Suffering of Whorid, this LP features some of Theologian's heavier stuff.
     It all kicks off with the monstrous cosmic dronescape of "God Comes As A Wall", a massive wall of churning black static that thunders across a looping, rhythmic undercurrent, itself continuing to surge in power throughout the course of the song. That looping propulsion from those buried drum machines makes this feel as if it's about to slip into a krautrock-like drive, but then it'll slides back into a murky, muffled wash of sound that shifts into a kind of droning death industrial, strafed with a combination of furious, distorted yells and strange, somnambulant voices that become almost totally lost in the roar of white noise.
     The other tracks add additional layers of darkness to the album. The title track billows across the disc in a particulate cloud, drenched in eerie elongated drones and darkly melodic murk, enshrouding an oneiric, technoid throb that is as captivating as anything you've heard from Hospital Productions lately. But "The Sun Failed To Rise Today" offers something different, a dreamlike fog of looping voices, fractured melodic synth and bleary chordal drift that wraps around a brutal mechanical rhythm that sounds almost Godfleshian; the result is quite heavier than what we usually hear from Theologian, a pneumatic, inexorable mecha-crush that becomes intensely hypnotic, and utterly malevolent.
     But the main track here, the nearly half hour long "Truthseeker's Pick", goes for a more meditative feel, unfurling its sheets of droning electronics and mechanical buzz across vast expanses of kosmische darkness, hypnotic currents of electrical energy coursing through the void. As the track develops, the sound undergoes subtle shifts in density, softly fluctuating waves of high-end borg-swarm moving endlessly through the emptiness of deep space, layers of searing synthesizer blossoming into peals of metallic buzz and hum, then later developing into the sounds of clanking metallic percussion surrounded by billowing distortion, pounding drums and rattling pipes forming rudimentary rhythms beneath the suffocating electronic fog, building into a final cacophony of shrieking noise and earth-shaking low-end rumble as fearsome distorted vocals begin to sweep in from afar, the final moments of this deathdrone epic peaking into a pummeling sheet metal roar.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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