Armed with a stack of old Soviet analogue synthesizers and a background in classical violin, Russian dark industrial artist Evgeny Voronovsky has been releasing his dark, mysterious droneworks under the name Cisfinitum since the late 1990's, making him one of the elder members of the Moscow dark ambient underground. Cisfinitum has released records through Waystyx, Drone Records and Monochrome Vision, but is still largely unknown outside of his home country; it wasn't until I picked up a copy of 2005's Bezdna earlier this year from J.R. over at Public Guilt that I myself had even heard of the project. Fans of grim, heavy industrial music will definitely want to check Cisfinitum out, however, as this album is great...nine lengthy tracks of bleak, heavy ambience, a blend of heavy kosmiche synth drones and layers of abrasive, throbbing electronic noises and weird samples, with the occasional violin, voice and piano entering the metallic clouds of ominous sheet metal presence. Much of Bezdna dips into Lustmordian pools of dread, and creates vast expanses of alien subterranea filled with chittering factory noises, whooshing space FX, beautiful strains of distant orchestral strings blurred into soft, slow-moving shadows drifting through black depths, the music constantly rooted in the rumbling, weighty thrum of those Soviet synths. It all peaks with the cathedral majesty of "Deep Down", the albums loudest track, which blasts heavily layered synths roaring at top volume into an epic, shimmering wall of hymn-like power. Gorgeous and gloomy, Cisfinitum's eerie dark ambience and blackened subterranean drones will certainly appeal to those that can't get enough of artists like Troum, Maeror Tri, Lustmord, Halo Manash, Aeoga (and the whole Aural Hypnox ritual deathdrone crowd), Yen Pox, and even Tangerine Dream (at their very darkest), and fans of heavy synth sounds are going to groove on the extensive use of synthesizers like the ANS, Polyvox, Yunost-21, Formanta UDS, Faemi Mini, Venetz AP-01 processor and other esoteric sounding pieces of equipment. Released in a limited edition of 500 copies.