Title: Revelation
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Industrial / Noise / Ambient
Release Date: 10th December 2004
Label: Bugs Crawling out of People
Album Review
The label with the catchy name ‘Bugs Crawling out of People’ was founded in 2004 by Squid; a former member of the TIK Recordings label and also known under his second alias IT-CLINGS. ‘Revelation’ marks the very first release of this label, based upon a story by Squid, completely included in the booklet.
It’s probably the best thing to listen to the music, while reading this apocalyptic manifest, where the protagonist gets to see beyond the borders of what we would call reality and time, after coming down from a trip. It opened up his mind and it paints a terrifying picture that is beyond any imagination and exceeds the cruellest fantasies, bred in the minds of horror film makers. The music; to come to that matter, makes you visualize, what is written down on these pages. Some of the songs even include passages of the text, barely understandable because drowned in noise. But the compilation starts comparatively calm with PROSPERO’s ‘Through The Walls’, a menacing sound collage, conjuring up dark pictures of devastated landscapes, destroyed by atomic explosions with the casual injection of noisy beats, pushing the song forward. When DEAD MAN’S HILL enter the arena, the temperature drops to zero immediately, while metallic, martial percussions fill the room and terrifying sound walls build up, permeated by a haunting voice.
After an intriguing droning intermezzo with the track ‘Merboso’ by CASUAL COINCIDENCE and the quite monotonous ‘Icon IV’ PNEUMATIC DETACH comes along with a study in rhythmic complexity that shows all the other contenders in that genre how it’s done properly. The title ‘Mute’ for the next track must have been meant as a joke as this is purest noise with an exceptional amount of heart-piercing cries. Regardless of their extremely disturbing capabilities, the tracks of bETOn bARRage and COLD FLESH INDUSTRY have something fascinating to them; ‘Devoured by Flies’ is a extreme fusion of ambience and noise, while ‘Hymn of Praise’ is a conglomerate of a constant droning and violent frequency manipulations to serve as a base for another fragment of the short story. The contribution of SCRAP.EDX sounds very much standard to me, has a straight pounding beats, almost from start to finish and no surprises. ‘A Deep Cthullhu Terror’ is balancing that flaw right away by unleashing an array of distorted beat structures and tribal elements. ASPHALT LEASH sets off to a whole other direction and delivers a harsh ambient track, definitely a highlight of the compilation. It’s up to NITROUS FLESH to close the compilation with en epic piece of music, divided into two parts; part I being a rather quiet one. Low layers of ambience are combined with distant martial drums; Part II playing with multiple drone layers.
‘Revelation’ mostly presents a pretty raw side of industrial music and is as far as I know, still an exception, because it’s based on a real concept and even if you don’t like all of the tracks, which is unavoidable on a compilation, it’s still a release that is much better than most of the more dance floor-oriented releases out there.
Tracklist
01. Prospero – Through The Walls – 6:54
02. Dead Man’s Hill – Heretics look Downstairs – 6:27
03. Casual Coincidence – Merboso – 6:56
04. NöRV – Icon IV – 3:38
05. Pneumtaic Detach - .Ryhim Ninept. – 3:35
06. Legion Ultra – Mute (Demo Version) – 3:35
07. Sedarka – Mucus on Ice – 4:00
08. bETOn bARRage – Devoured by Flies – 5:10
09. Cold Flesh Colony – Hymn of Praise – 4:24
10. Scrap.Edx – All Those Fucking Eyes – 6:33
11. Iszoloscope – A Deep Cthullhu Terror – 5:36
12. Asphalt Leash – Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong – 6:37
13. Nitrous Flesh – The Return of Dark Angels (Part I) – 6:58
14. Nitrous Flesh – The Return of Dark Angels (Part II) – 4:40
Website
http://www.bugscrawlingoutofpeople.com/ / http://www.myspace.com/bugscrawlingoutofpeople
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 7
Sound: 9
Extras: -
Total: 8
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