Amazing dub sound construction. Produced well and nicely varied within its own arena of play. To be played loud, with all the stops pulled out on the system. Some very nice reverberations in the mix, which are controlled and managed excellently. Black Mass is massive. There is some lightness, to be found in other tracks, but the opposite is done so very well, that it is no weight to bear, but rather fine dub to be enjoyed to the hilt. Ovechka Byasha is a fine track. Carried into Soldat, which harks back to a form of traditionalism. There is a fine sensibility captured and ingrained into Schizophrenia, nicely done. Again, as the album continues, there is evident a consumate skill in fusing these sound sources and producing a very listenable array of tracks. The strength remains throughout, just crests in a few waves of sound here and there.
Where it seems to be strongest and work most efficiently is in the 'dark' musical explorations. I think dub lends itself quite well to this emotionality, and can find itself emitting considerable surges of power in the mixing. Black Mass/Scizophrenia and Dark Matter being good examples so far. Tesla's Device, the eponymous Death Ray perhaps and I suspect these are musical missiles. The atmosphere actually seems to lighten for Haunted House, though it retains an eerie invocation. War is a fine track, big subject and in a way a suitably big track, though not in terms of time. War is in a way a transcendence of the people. Another world being destroyed somewhere.
Ice Crasher, does seem to attain a level of crashing through the speakers. Very evocative. Then, it seems we are back with Tesla and his theorising and practice About Harm Of A Loud Sound. Exquisite stuff that just makes me want to turn it up all the time, can't be a bad sign! Burning Cross again, full of thick drama, intense and very satisfying. The music stays the master, and drives on with Engine. As for Bass In The Place, the Public Domain could't be a better location. Again, Train To Hell, does it loud and proud. Black is back! Like I said works well with dark matter, as we are presented with Pure Evil.
I suspect there are certain configurations of musical expression that have accumulated a secondary sense of notation, inasmuch as what it (the music) could refer to, and, without a title/lyrics to lead the way, it has been an endless fascination that certain sounds evoke certain responses. Just ask Tesla, and a host of hypothetical harmonic leaps of faith. I think the answer is there, just unmanageably complex. Chemical Bugz continues the 'darker' side and it has developed well here. If not dark then doubt, seems to be what it's about. Electrix a nice 'warm down' track to finish off a superb album of dub construction. Fantastic work, thanks for sharing.
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