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Metavoid

Metavoid

a review by Mike W. of
release format Metavoid by Lustmord (CD Album)

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When Lustmord released 'Heresy' in 1990, he unleashed what was to become the archetypal dark-ambient album - a work of entombed dread whose source was disinterred and recorded in the guts of caverns, mines, and subterranean shelters. Its purgatory-soaked drones and squalls made 'Heresy' an instant classic in the industrial music genre, and future artists digging in and sifting through similar volcanic sounds inevitably had their releases measured against it.

For the following 11 years, ironically, Lustmord's follow-up CDs were subject to the same comparison. 'This Monstrous Soul', 'The Place Where the Black Stars Hang', and last year's collection of compilation tracks and 12" cuts, 'Purifying Soul', trolled through dank, suffocating ether and pulled up tracks of subsonic disease and disquiet. However, these releases weren't varied enough to be seen outside of the black aura of influence emanating from 'Heresy'.

'Metavoid' is Lustmord's first CD since 1990 to stand alone on its own feet. While this new release is also mired in the simmering juices and gases of the Earth's intestines, many of the tracks have a musical progression absent from previous Lustmord discs.

'Metavoid' seems to stem from the musician's day job as a sound designer and soundtrack composer for movies and video games. On 'The Eliminating Angel', 'Blood Deep in Dread', and 'A Light That Is Darkness', synthesized strings, disembodied monk chants, and loping percussive beats phase into the foreground over the elongated snaps of twisting bedrock and colossal, tortured groans that could be travelling through the underworld. Long-time fans of industrial music will draw connections to the gothic apprehension of Shinjuku Thief's 'Witch' series, but moviegoers may also see this disc as the perfect incidental music to a fantasy/sci-fi flick, hearing marching music for snake-like caravans and head-bowed mutant camels creeping across desert emptiness.

At times epic in reach and emotion, at other times crawling face-first through muck, 'Metavoid' marks the end of 'Heresy's dominance and a change in what to expect in future releases from Lustmord - a change that was a long time coming. Posted by Mike W. at 14:18, 01 Aug 2001