Silvester Anfang – Silvester Anfang II

This is Hell’s music. It’s not abrasive and it doesn’t have any hint of metal. That’d be too easy. This doesn’t have to scream evil, it just is. It’s twisted up, like the sounds shouldn’t work together, but they do. Desperation is at its core. It’ll pull itself out to lonely, wandering strains – always supported by insistent drums – and build, slowly build, but never to chaos. For all of its bad-trip twisting it never loses control. If you can picture an opium den through the eyes of a Puritan, you can see the sort of moral depravity this album illustrates. Top class. If you dig Current 93 or Grails you’ll find something here.

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