STYLE..... Industrial
LABEL..... Cold Meat Industry
REL.DATE... 11.06.2010
COUNTRY... Sweden
IRM has already existed
for over 10 years and are recognized as one of the most
interesting Industrial bands around. This time Martin Bladh and
Erik Jarl are joined by a third band member Mikael Oretoft on
bass-guitarr. This new work by IRM is a deeper delving into the
psyche of the self inflictor û the core of inner regions violently
exposed. Comprised by four tracks, each exactly 15 minutes in
length we are thrown into a vortex of feedback, cymbaldrones,
heavy bass-strumming, nightmarish pianotinkles and
irreproachable synthwork. Demanding your attention all the way
through û certainly not an easy listening experience -
describing the course of events is impossible. It is again a
mature and intricate work of incisive delicacies and
theatrical ambiences. The sense of detail throughout is immense
and the editing perfect. The clinical heaviness of earlier
works are now transformed into a pure harsh, static
soundwave which are most often cut off by another, slower, softer
but in ways a more painful and dynamic one. The lyrics here
are deeper cuts into personal matters. A man altering between
life and death - a calculating and disillusive thinker and
recluse who has lost the grip of reality, or perhaps found another?
The strife for self-control turned into sick dedication,
waging war on himself to receive recognition - the end comes
nearer. Seldom have we heard a strange work like this which
turns both lyrics and music into a full whole - stay away if deeper
encounters with the human mind offends.
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