Studies for a Vortex media report 2

Second review on "Studies for a Vortex" at Forest Punk . Thank you for the support.
Bruised and sullen death industrial power electronic Dark AmbientWhat’s a Dark Ambient best-of list without some malignant, malevolent post-industrial aesthetics? Not much, that’s what. Studies For A Vortex leans towards the industrial roots of Dark Ambient, in the early 80s, arc-welding harsh noise, power electronics, and throbbing beats, which are then tarred-and-feathered with ominous shadows and unholy atmospherics, all of which form a platform over which Andre Coelho spews his antisocial invocations and eulogies.
Studies For A Vortex is legitimately chilling. It sounds like some tortured outsider, living in some abandoned industrial space, sharpening their metal and honing their hatred for humanity in the dead of night. Are they Human? Demon? Machine? It won’t matter when yr tasting their steel.

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