LUSTMORD The Monstrous Soul 2xLP

LUSTMORD The Monstrous Soul 2xLP

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Burning World
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***


DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
It is the night of the Demon. This mantra repeats over and over as Lustmord's 1992 album The Monstrous Soul begins, luring the listener into a sinister soundtrack-like fog of ominous droning keyboards, howling wind, and distant tympani drums. As the follow-up to Lustmord's defining album Heresy this feels much more "composed", with moody synthesizers, drums and looped samples contributing to the subterreanean black-mass atmosphere as much as the underground dronescapes and catacomb recordings that Brian Lustmord uses as the source material for his pitch-black ambience. These more musical elements forecast the film-score style approach that Lustmord would take with later albums, but it's still very much rooted here in the cavernous ambience of the tomb, and laced with looped chants and ritual invocations drawn from the works of Aleister Crowley. The album also has some heavier moments that come as a surprise after the largely shapeless horrors of Heresy; on the massive twenty-five minurte "Primordial Atom", the blasting guttural hell-horns bellow out over slow-motion crashes of monstyrous percussion, resembling a denuded funeral doom track. Later, ritualistic chanting appears over the strike of a hammer on anvil as you wander through the occult factory ambience of "Protoplasmic Reversion", and "The Daathian Doorway" is a glimmering nebula of crystalline electronics and minimal ambient tones. The closing piece "The Fourth And Final Key" returns to the massive abysmal drone-dirge of the first half of the album, introducing Gregorian chants and distant shimmering metal to the wide spaces between the constant mortar-like percussive blasts that echo through the track, but then the second half morphs into a monolithic industrial drone with infinite stretched chanting and the sounds of savage whippings and prayer-gongs. As with his other early 90s works, this is absolute nightmare music, the sound of dread made flesh, enhanced by the electronic textures of Adi Newton from Clock DVA/The Anti Group. Overall, The Monstrous Soul doesn't exclusively inhabit the pure pitch blackness of Heresy or The Place Where The Black Stars Hang, but it's still a classic dark ambient album. The limited-edition double Lp that recently came out on Burning World features this crucial dark ambient album in it's entority (but with the track listing juggled around a little to accomodate some of the longer tracks, and "Primordial Atom" split into two halves across two sides), along with a bonus track "Xaxa/Primordial Live In Krakow" that does not appear on the original Cd release. Comes in a heavy gatefold jacket. © CRUCIAL BLAST
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