Un album très sombre, qui évoque une déshumanisation complète et totale, monde apocalyptique où la froideur des machines en auraient pris le contrôle absolu. Ici point de salut, juste la soumission !

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.

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.

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.

Excellent album. So dark, so depressive - but still melodically, still art. The dark ambient music maybe don't have too many fans, but they understand this special music... so rare. At Jamendo I've discovered Deied, Radio Noiseville, Dreamerion, Tetania and others - today is reserved for another great band, Nocturn Inferi. Thanks:)

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I like these sounds similar in a mecanical wind whirling, and who makes me turn the head :) (particularely on "strange" with the voice of our dear friend ivan) the addition of pretty dark melancholic melody return it very pleasing to the ear... good job

tragic sounds for a tragic life where nothing remains of humanity, let alone that voice, like a reminiscent warning of what could be... but it is too late ! No place for man ! And what have we left to this despairing machine ? The worst we have imagined as humans, toying with useless ideas. But we left for a better place, happily ! And do we care now ? What for ?

Nareszcie dłuższa propozycja od Nocturn Inferi:) Co nie znaczy, że Jego albumy z pojedyńczymi kompozycjami są gorsze - ja po prostu lubię takie dłuższe płyty, które nie kończą się już po 10 -12 minutach... Na tym albumie mamy cokolwiek inne oblicze muzyczne NI, jest trochę bardziej "technologicznie" (czyt. industrialnie) a ciut mniej klimatów darkambientowych. W niczym nie szkodzi to tej muzyce, a nawet - tak to ujmę - wzbogaca ją o nową jakość, której na innych albumach NI nie ma... To jest inna stylistyka, dobra i ciekawa... Więcej takiego stuff'u mile widziane, a jakby tak jeszcze tu i ówdzie zawyła jakaś wygięta gitara... ;)) Gratuluję i dzięks za udostępnienie. Szacun.

Das Level an Expermentierfreudigkeit ist hier sehr hoch. Nie steht ein angenehmer Sound alleine, sofort kommt ein zerstörerischer Bass oder der Sound einer Wasserspülung. Man muss soetwas mögen. Magnum Ignotum und Iconoclast sind Songs, die mir gefallen. Der erste wegen seines Mittelaltertouches, der zweite wegen der ruhigen Flächensounds. Temple Of Unknown Goddess erinnert an eine defekte Toilettenspülung. Der Bass in der Mitte gefällt mir dann aber wieder. Zwei mal Ivan1984, Strange ist mir deutlich zu heftig und mit viel zu viel Destortion. Ist halt mein Geschmack. Future hat gegenüber den meisten anderen Ivan Songs einen echten Vorteil, man versteht seine Stimme und kann seinen Worten folgen. Die angewendeten Effekte unterstützen statt zu zerstören, das ist gut. Ivans typischen Sound, hervorgerufen durch sein Spezialmikrophon ist natürlich wieder dabei. Mein Kopfhörer weigert sich und auch meine Boxen, die sonst viel aushalten, fangen an zu knarren. Oder ist das Absicht? Wie auch immer, es ist zu viel Subbass.