Salò Salon – Culte Du Moi. – CD – L.White Records – 2020.
https://salosalon.bandcamp.com/
Culte Du Moi is the sixth
release by Salò Salon who have been releasing albums since 2015. Based in
Germany, they are one of the countries newer, Death Industrial acts to emerge.
The album begins with ambient,
nightmarish sounds and sampled German speech. The Ambient feel dominates Culte
Du Moi and this is built upon as the album unfolds. As the first track ends, we
have more aggressive sound, with tortured shouting throughout, this is where
the real Death Industrial feel of the work begins to show. The work then pulls
back into more infected ambient passages, this part really references the work
of Premature Ejaculation; infected, nauseous loops that seem to widen and
pulsate. strong atmospheres are created in the ambient passages as vocal
samples and suspenseful noises play out. Rises in sound or the introduction of more
sounds intensify the work massively.
This album is true, sonically
nauseous Death Industrial. It is a lot happier in murkier, dark territory than
the more explosive, violent tracks. I like the atmospherics in the work, I feel
that a lot of its ‘work as work’ is how the sounds and atmospheres are layered
and varied so that the album remains continually interesting. There are feelings
of angst, anxiety, terror, nausea, disease, aggression, decay and death covered
in the work, the shifts in sound ensure a continual movement of effect.
This has made a good post
lockdown soundtrack; it has ambition and depth. I recommend buying it.
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