Steel Hook Prostheses (SHP) need no introduction and once
again are turning things up a notch releasing Calm Morbidity. As far as Death
Industrial goes these guys are dead on target with this psychotic masterpiece
of varied drones, synthesizer sounds, and extremely fucked up effected vocals.
Opening up with “Doused with Acid”, one of my personal
favorites, we have classic Death Industrial starting with ramblings of someone,
possibly a victim, and then a minute into it you get a heavy loaded background
of drone and whirring with the suffocating and terrifying treated vocals of the
killer. Whereas “Parathesia”, which is essentially nothing but drone whirs to
begin with, until about two minutes in and clanks of metal start knocking, it
tries the nerves, then the sound of someone there begins to creep in with the
black death eminence that likens to the sound of Lustmord/CMI Black Ambient.
While “Deep in the Marrow” starts in with an eerie drone and then leads you
down to an underground concrete bunker where an autopsy is taking while the
person is alive and awake, although drugged…heavily drugged, but still
conscious, the voice of death slowly renders something unintelligible amidst
the backdrop of synth washes and grim colors.
With “Cancer Maiden” it’s a stretch of whooshing nestled
beneath a spiraling industrial landscape of polluted static, vocals heavily
treated and going back and forth between several personalities in an effort to
distort the listener into a depth of depravity and unease. And “Piss Prophet” is another
hallucinatory venture into the world of controlled chaos. Its circular pulse of
sonar and cloud of static are periodic and controlled but still manage to
unleash another sense of unease in the listener, the vocals again being a
central part of the soundscape, unintelligible, and an ending being something
along the lines of a krautrock (Cluster/Harmonia/Tangerine Dream).
The overall level of malevolence here is heard and
insinuated more so than outright, as most of the horror is undeniably in the
vocals, whereas with HNW/noise it tends to be the reverse. If your looking for
things that tend to be heavy in atmosphere and composition you really can’t go
wrong with SHP.
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