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Brighter Death Now - Necrose Evangelicum [Cold Meat Industry - 2008]

This is an remixed and remaster reissue of  Brighter Death Now 1995 classic album of unforgiving death industrial and sludge ambient tone with an second disk featuring an  equally mournful, painful and vomited black live set from the same period .

Really you know your not in for a fun and happy time from the great creepy and disturbing front cover of a tree filled with hanged people and animals and it lives up to it’s cover and then some.  Through out this is black as can be with tracks been built around looped, weighty and unforgiving muffled drums and synth tones, bleak feed back shorts and whines, bleak chant, moans and groans, dingy and muffled dialogue and film samples. This is so suffocating, so pained that it’s certain to drag down and darken even the brightest, hyper mood. There is zero hope here through out the near on 50 mintue running time, as the album progresses  the tracks seem drag on and on pulling you deeper and deeper into a darkened, crawling and airless world were there seems no escape or let-up. Things become less sludge and mudded on the final and title track with it's  down turned ambient synth drift, moans and creepy snippets serial killer related dialogue, with the tracks synth been atmospherically played by Mortis.

The second unreleased live disk is just as bleak and unforgiving as Necrose Evangelicum, but with a bit more pronounced rhythmic and looped elements at play. It also gets quite a lot more noisy and crowded in its sonic make- up with all manner of samples, pained moans, grey feed-back clouds and all manner of blacked textures been put into play. The sound feels a little less murky then most of Necrose Evangelicum too. On offer are five tracks taking in just over 35 minutes of hell-bound sonics which are a great companion to the original album.

So all in all an welcome reissue of this ultra bleak and black classic, that’s only really let down slightly by there not been  booklet or inlay. It would have been great to see old reviews of the album reproduced, along with possible Roger Karmanik(who is Brighter Death Now) thoughts about the album now and it’s recording process.

Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5Rating: 4 out of 5

Roger Batty
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