Album
Type : Full Length
Date
Released : 18/10/2013
Label
: Crucial Blast
1).
Black Coven Myopia 04:32
2).The
Conjoined Deviant Procession 05:133). Gore Stained Ramparts 08:32
4). Grand Guignol 04:04
5). Like Love, Only Real 05:38
6). The Conjoned Deviant Procession 04:49
7). Welcome To The Golden Age of Beggars 06:18
8). Writing Corpus Landscape 08:05
Bio :
The
latest offering from THEOLOGIAN
-- a.k.a. Leech, also the mastermind behind the renowned power
electronics/death industrial outfit Navicon Torture Technologies -- Some Things Have To Be Endured features
eight new tracks of punishing black industrial, apocalyptic darkwave
frequencies, and nerve-rending electronic deathscapes. The album is a
collection of collaborations between THEOLOGIAN
and a lineup of female vocalists/artists from both within the industrial /
noise / dark ambient / coldwave realm and beyond, with contributions from
Rachael Kozak (Hecate), Kristen MacArthur (Sewer Goddess), Rachel Maloney
(Tonikom), Nikki Telladictorian (Prometheus Burning), Patricia Benitez (Fetish
Drone), Gillian Leigh Bowling (Teloahqaal), Christiana Key (Delphic Oracle),
Joan Hacker (Factoria), Shari Vari (Void Vision), and professional opera singer
Melissa C. Kelly. The tracks shift from grinding industrial dread to ethereal
coldwave beauty, blasts of rumbling blackened synthcrush met with washes of
haunting electronic melody, while always remaining rooted in THEOLOGIAN's bleak, jet-black
industrial sound. Co-produced with Derek Rush/Dream Into Dust and mastered by
James Plotkin, Some Things Have To Be
Endured contains some of the most moving and dramatic music to emerge
from THEOLOGIAN's black sonic
abyss, and the album comes adorned with striking photography by Ione Rucquoi
that makes this one of the more visually arresting releases in the outfit’s
growing catalog
Review :
Theologian play dark industrial ambient
noise, the likes of which has probably never been witnessed before. To listen
to 'Some Things Have To be Endured' is like staring into the abyss, and trying desperately
not to make eye contact with what stares back at you. Masterminded by NY based
noizenik Leech and uniquely featuring a slew of guest female vocalists, the
record is seeing a release via the experimental Crucial Blast label in an
unholy union that is sure to reap rewards.
'Black
Cavern Myopia' commences with Sunn o))) style depth and discordance, before
a nauseating industrial beat springs forth to dominate. Throughout the track
it's never in danger of becoming overbearing on misplaced, it lurks in the
shadows with pure menace, perfectly poised. This is true dark ambiance, ushered
forth from a long night of the soul. The vocals of Rachael Kozak are haunting
and sensual, and will frankly creep you out. She sounds like she was either
drugged or possessed or a combination of both during the recording process.
Brilliant.
'Gore-Stained
Ramparts' is more uneasy listening, but in a gradual sense. It begins in an
inoffensive enough manner, but the increase in tension suggests that testing
times lay ahead. And sure enough the clangs of machinery from the seventh
circle of hell start to weed their way into the score and the effort starts to
sound like a passage from the book of Job. This is suffering in a magnificent
manner, the feeling of panic is so tangible and escalating that I actually
began to experience anxiety. And if music can start to affect a listener in
such a physical way? Well, that's true power right there folks. It never gets
seriously loud, and it doesn't need to force it's will upon you. Scary stuff.
'The
Conjoined Deviant Procession' features a steady hiss as if something is
only half tuned in, and an unsteady beat in the background that could be a
health hazard. All the while twinned with more unearthly female vocals, this
time provided by Christiana Key of Delphic Oracle. I imagine that being in a
sensory deprivation tank for too long could lead to hallucinations that this
song could successfully soundtrack. Bleak in every sense of the word, you'll
feel heavily medicated with no escape before this composition is through with
you.
Not for the faint of heart or expectant
mothers, 'Some Things Have To Be Endured' is just what it's title suggests, an
exercise in endurance. It will however reward that endurance and repeated plays
with an increasingly fantastic record that must have been hell to conceive, and
just as difficult to physically create. But what a creation, one of stunning
malevolence and bitter beauty.
Listen to Theologian - It should scare
the shit out of you. If it doesn't, you're a stronger person than I.
Words
by :
Matt Fitton
You can buy it here
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