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CADAVER YELLETH AT AMBER TOWER  Code Algeria  CD   (Res Adversae)   11.98


In our last New Additions list, we had a cassette from an enigmatic Russian project called MH LMTH that fused cryptic Occult elements with a massively crushing wave of blackened electronic death drone, a kind of black magic industrial trance ritual that flowed from our speakers in a jet-black ooze of indecipherable vocals and blasphemous incantations, grinding doomdrone guitar, and roaring feedback. That tape was fantastic, and in digging around for more information on the mysterious figure behind MH LMTH, AL-LA-ShT-ORR, I discovered that he also had several other bands and projects that he was involved in. A "kabbalistic black metal" band called Ithdabquth Qliphoth, the raw black metal projects Deathmoon and Hammer ov Qliphoth, and Cadaver Yelleth At Amber Tower, another strange drone/electronics project that infests the listener with creeped out frequencies and sound collage. Code: Algeria appears to be the only CD release from this project, and it features two tracks that (according to the liner notes) use recordings of intercepeted conversations between Russian ground control and air force pilots from Algerian airspace in 2005, layering these recordings with sheets of electronic feedback and drone. AL-LA-ShT-ORR creates a grim electronic dronescape that takes on an almost cinematic tension as we listen to these Russian voices cloaked in white noise hiss going back and forth over grating electronic beeps and noises, harrowing high-end drones, growling organ-like clusters of notes, and piercing feedback. The mix of radio transmissions and grim industrial shrieking forms a strange, alien shortwave similiar to some of Throbbing Gristle's ominous works. This disc came out on Res Adversae, the Russian black metal/power electronics label that gave us that MH LMTH tape, and is in a hand-numbered limited edition of 283 copies.


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