Multicide - Pathogenesis FLAC download

This is the solo project of JOHN EVERALL, the guy behind the SENTRAX label, assisted with mixing effects & samples by MICK HARRIS and guitarist PAUL NEVILLE on the title track. "Zero Element" is a quiet, passive, enjoyably strange little track which moves between slightly metallic sustains & simple tabla-like rhythms - obvious comparison would be MUSLIMGAUZE, although this is a lot less intense, somehow less threatening. "Pathogenesis" is a more complex thng, opening with spoken voice on morbid subjects, it becomes a sort of R'n'R rhythm remoulded into something smoother, a loose sequential rhythm over which white gaseous buzzes of guitar & snatches of spoken voice rise and fall. It has an insistance to it, simple yet somehow trancy. "Ashy Drifts Of Insect Corpses" slowly drifts in and out of the speakers, a non-beat thing which consists of a series of whitish synths & subtle samples, drifting out of the speakers in panned stereo soundscapes, a series of floating imaginary forms suspended in a lighter-than-air atmosphere. About 12 minutes into it's 18 minute length, a drum pattern fades into the mix, a jungle rhythm which fits perfectly into it's dream-state atmosphere. A more dense blast of noise fills the air for "Bad Blood", moving with heart-beat through icy wind-blown avenues of sound, amorphous, ungrounded & starkly alien. "Punishing The Atoms" is a slow, dramatic track, a sort of film theme, dark & gravid with intended threat. A voice quietly talks about a multiple personality in the background in that quiet, laid-back way found on CLOCK DVA's more dramatic 90's material. "5-HT" evolves through a series of disquieting soundscapes, peopled by voices male & female speaking of killing, into a huge rolling thunderous thing over which metal-like percussion, white-bleached beyond any physical weight, fall into fragments. An intriguing album, it's passivity countered by chill atmospheres & disquieting works from the darker side of the human soul. It's going to be interesting to see how this project develops. Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.