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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Plague Mother - (2012) A Silent Exit CS

All 4 track names together with the album title conceptually shows in the direction of a rather brutal death experience. Bataille quote on the cover also adds to setting the right mood. The sound itself is rather nice and pleasant harsh noise. It's not chaotic; it moves quite slowly and is somewhat of a mix between static harsh noise wall and death industrial. For the bigger part of the album tough distorted noise with dominating low-mid frequencies comes from the speakers. A side starts with several sound layers that are slowly distorted more and more while transforms into unrecognizable sea of noise. The second track starts developing from nice and filthy metal clanging while you slowly drown in the soft distorted composition with timid synth notes, rhythmic rudiments and feedbacks silently appearing from the background. A side is truly nice realized in sense of sound and composition. B side kicks off from aggressive feedback and you are no longer taken into the track slowly. The sound is no longer pleasant statics and lifts towards the higher frequencies where the composing problems are being solved. The very last track, "Final Sighs" is the least interesting soundwisely. Synth notes are distorted to moments of absolute absence of sound that would be enjoyable for Richard Ramirez and co.

Plague Mother - (2014) Bones Of Regret CS

Three tracks of brooding, slow-moving harsh noise that focuses on minimal textures and feedback to create an incredible cycle of tension and release. PLAGUE MOTHER tracks evolve so skillfully that you often find yourself in the midst of a wall of noise, unaware of how you got there.

Plague Mother & Winter Ritual - (2014) Split CS

Both projects on this split bring their unique and gripping approach to the realm of heavy electronics. Winter Ritual takes a more focused, brooding approach over three movements - you don’t notice the air being taken from your lungs until the very end. Plague Mother never gives the listener the air to begin with, providing two pieces  of panic and paranoia.