Title: Music as Weaponry
Artist: Post Death Soundtrack
Genre: Industrial
Release Date: 16th September 2008
Label: Overthrow
Album Review
“Post Death Soundtrack is the antithesis of today’s mainstream music culture…” say the homepage of the Canadian duo Steve Moore and Kenneth Buck who released their full-length debut ‘Music as Weaponry’ last year garnering a lot of positive critics for it ever since…
Already with the opener ‘Axe of Fiction’ the duo makes perfectly clear that it’s not willing to serve us simple diet with a sophisticated percussion/electronic rhythm riding forth under darkly glowing desert-like textures while an ominously whispering voice puts you into a state of unease. From the dark deserts into the industrialized post-apocalyptic hell which is ‘Decentralize’ with incessantly rolling cold beats destroying everything what’s in their way to shrink to meticulous electronic stabs as the blackened ambiance of a depopulated world manifests to the blood-curdling screams of a maimed voice and just when you think that’s the end of the line the track kicks up into the thrashing realms of brutal metal with soaring riffing. ‘Life Gone Solitary’ surfaces a lo-fi attitude with the crackling sounds of a vinyl and atmospheres obviously realized with vintage gear and repeatedly the word ‘Murder’ penetrates through the layers. As soon as the chant starts in ‘Long Cold Night’ we learn we just listened to a kind of entrée. A laid-back rhythm’s now underlining everything and a constantly re-appearing melodic theme creates an intense undertow that’s clawing at you and once it got hold of you pulls you gradually into dimensions of deepest blackness. “It’s gonna be a long cold night”.
‘Euchreist’ could as well be decent dance floor filler if it weren’t for its little twist in the arrangement when the driving aggression makes way for an atmospherically dense intermezzo where acoustic guitars take over control and the beats get more restrained to a certain extend just to push you back into the whirlwind of aggression shortly thereafter. Imagine my dumb face when I heard the first tunes of ‘Killing Time’ coming out of my speakers. Sound-wise it’s a clear departure from everything heard before on the album. It comes across like a cynical somewhat surreal and exclusively aural theatre play that sometimes seems unintentionally funny. With a steady heartbeat slowly fading into nothingness starts the last track of the album ‘I’ll meet you at the End’ that brings the album to a pretty calm end filled with acoustics, synthesized strings and an eclectic sequence of electronics paired with the rhythmic, organic vibes of a percussion.
‘Music as Weaponry’ is a challenging ride through various styles not exclusively rooted in the electronic genre and by no means music for simple minds and far away from the formulatic stuff you get to hear a lot these days.
Tracklist
01. Axe of Fiction - 3:30
02. Decentralize - 4:02
03. The Pre-emptive Art (striking fir - 3:53
04. Life Gone Solitary - 1:40
05. Long Cold Night - 5:35
06. War Song - 5:07
07. Euchreist - 4:19
08. We're Going Hunting - 5:16
09. Simulation and Simulacra - 2:49
10. Killing Time - 4:20
11. Fingerprints - 5:06
12. Serenade - 1:42
13. Hegemonic Bastards Network (HBN) - 5:31
14. I'll Meet You at the End - 4:36
Line-up
Kenneth Buck
Steve Moore
Website
http://www.postdeathsoundtrack.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/postdeathsoundtrack
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 8
Sound: 8
Extras: -
Total: 8 / 10
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