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The Skull Defekts + The Sons Of God - Received In Studio Dental, Gothenburg [Utech Records - 2010]

'Received In Studio Dental, Gothenburg’ is a very tense, brooding & at times intense mixture of: scuttling, twitching & uneasy improv. And drifting to pressing drone throbs ‘n’ dips to more suffocating noise drone hovers later on in the piece. This collaboration brings together Swedish drone & ritual rock makers The Skull Defekts & two piece performance/noise project The Sons Of God.

On offer here is one hour long track which sees this four piece creating a very ugly, brooding, sinister & instense ebb, drift & sear. The first thirty five minutes or so of the track sees the four soundmakers building a sparse yet intensifying atmospheric dwell that sees The Skull Defekts creating a drifting in & out map of uneasy to quite suffocating drone dwells, which seem to be derived from analogue snyth tones & controlled feed-back sustains. And the Sons of God add on top of this building and subsiding wall of brooding drone a detailed & damned collection of electro acoustic improv that’s takes in all manner of: drags, guitar neck slides, creepy feed back whines, eerier scuttles and creepy shifts. 

By the forty minute mark things have become a lot more noisy & nasty with a loud film of speaker air fuzz covering everything & more slow monition junk noise likehighs appearing; yet they never fully let it go over the edge into all out noise which keeps one nicely tense & on-edge, expecting an all out battering but never fully getting it. By nearly the fifty minute mark the noise air has died out & a penetrating & grim sustained analogue throb has taken centre stage- this is still sliced & dragged by atmospherically controlled yet at times nasty improv attacks.

All told a great lengthy collaboration that dwells in sustained tension, dread and fear with sudden out burst of violence & sonic rage. If you have being underwhelmed & somewhat let down by The Skull Defekts recent forays into more ritual  & conventional rock music this piece of edgy nastiness will be right up your street.

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Roger Batty
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