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Strange Features

by Nocturn Inferi

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experimental ambient industrial

6 tracks

30:31

1	Magnum Ignotum	5:28
2	Strange feat. Ivan1984	3:44
3	Iconoclast	4:28
4	Temple Of Unknown Goddess	6:04
5	Future feat. Ivan1984	5:09
6	End Of Era	5:38

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Arisenprodigy

Awesome - Loved it!

05/06/09

I like how the first track "breathes" in the intro and continues to build on that. Very interesting use on the "ahh's."

I love the grungy grime electro feel of the second track.

Third track is a really great mix between nature and industrial.

Fourth track... Did you buy Satan's Wah pedal? That was my initial thought and then I looked at the track name. Interesting to me that I thought of some sort of deity.

Very Ambient on the fifth track. What Ivan has to say is very interesting. I like how he is warbled and faded out.

End of Era almost seamlessly works with the ending of Future. I like the use of tonality and droning effects. The use of the horn sirens at the end really seals the deal on the idea that this is the end of an era.

ciderlord

mix'n'match

04/06/09

I class this one in the "very interesting" category.

It starts with a really great opener, dark and doom surround you and even the somewhat artificial vocal effects sound well suited to the piece. Equally, the "end of era" is top-notch. Both are all out winners.

The "ivan" tracks are variable. In the first, I began to wonder why he had been credited at all. He may be there but is too well hidden for me. If you are going to feature him, then feature him. Don't hide him beneath layers of other sounds. The second ivan track is much more like it. It is a accurate blending of his voice and music. It also, very importantly, matches the important bits of his speech with the music. This is something others have tried but failed to achieve in the past.

Tracks 3 and 4 are opposites. Track 3 develops, and then just as it starts to get interesting finishes. There is plenty more mileage in it and I wish this had been allowed to come out. Track 4 I regard as the weakest on the album. It is too long and needs editing top and tail to make it workable. I like the early TD feel but I'm not happy with this as it stands.

So overall, a satisfying release which just misses out on the highest levels. Still a very good work and thanks to all concerned for their efforts in producing it.

Ivan1984

Curiouser and curiouser...

03/06/09

A very sinuous start, slowly crawling up your spine into your nervous system, Magnum Ignotum is a perfect beginning. Exceptionally nice, dark balancing of sound and everlasting rhythm. Love the ending. Strange, bubbles and burbles strangely. I have my moments of incoherency, even when talking with myself. Certainly, the following track breaks the icon, and presents us with an interesting experiment, with afterthoughts. How represent an unknown goddess, less be able to bring down her image if it was never really there. I have known some deities in my times on earth and many more to come, no doubt. Like shifting sands, sometimes once you are in, you are in and there's no escape. Such is faith in our steps through life's quagmire of circumstantial evidence and experiential situations. Temple of Unknown Goddess continues the theme, as the invisible indivisible crashes asunder around you in unknowable quantities and trajectories. Future is as tangible as the goddess, I see it not, being as incoherently lost in the depthless infinitude of overall existence. Like bathing in white noise, only this is black. End of Era, sews it up nicely, taking the point and hammering home with a formless hammer into an invisible material. Somehow, it is like completing a puzzle that presents you with a plain view, the pieces indistinguishable only by their shape, when even that is sometimes the same, making them potentially interchangeable. Ultimately, you never know if you've got it right.