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EVP - The Postmortem Canticles of Necromancy [Autumn Wind Productions - 2008]

This projects name, the albums artwork (which includes a fold out Ouija board) and title suggests this is going to be either dark ambience or ritual base dark industrial grim with EVP elements. Instead this is an often quite a memorable mix of sampled symphonic elements, cinematic electroncia and beat-bound horror scapes.

Quite often this brings to mind a less dense, un-sophisticated take on coil in their more dance beat and sampled string period sort a mix of Love secret's Domain and Horse Rovator material. But with a more classic horror type vibe to it all there are all manner of ominous tolling bells, owl calls, darken monks chanting and fist full of horror effects. Along with spattering of EVP recording samples over the dramatic sampled string work and darken beat grooves. At times the pace slows to a more atmospheric crawl but rarely are the beats completely absent.

A passable effort with some effective dark beat-bound vibes. With the only two major negatives here been the lengthy 70 minutes running time that feels a little too long for it’s own good and some of the later tracks feature some lacklustre elementary guitar twang- that rather ruin them.

Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5Rating: 3 out of 5

Roger Batty
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