Infernal Kommando brings us another great cassette of mysterious blackened ambience, but this time it's from a project out of Honduras of all places, not a place well known for it's black ritual ambient output. Aleph Naught turns out to fit right in with the sort of abstract graveyard drift that I look for from this label, fitting in perfectly with bands like Malvoisie, Stigma Diabolicum, and the like, with a side full of evocative kosmische blackness and dark drugged dreamscapes that winds through menacing wormholes and Lovecraftian cave systems. The five tracks on Rituals had all previously appeared on a self-released disc, but this kind of ominous black cathedral ambience always seems to sound even better when heard on cassette. Described in some quarters as "Occult Ritual Dark Ambient", Aleph Naught channels some classic Popul Vuh/Tangerine Dream style synthesizer drift and space drone into darker forms, each track a dreamy, low-fi synthscape of haunting minor key creepiness and murky sonic shadow that are kept fairly short at around five minutes or so each, lacing the synth drones and rumbling on pieces like "Death Ritual', "Insects And Rats", and "The Womb Of Opposites" with what sounds like detuned piano and eerie circular keyboards that circle overhead, swells of dissonant noise and copious amounts of echo, and slabs of damaged Mellotron, dolorous choral voices and dark symphonic strings. Try imagining Zeit/Rubycon-era Tangerine Dream, but filtered through the low-fi catacomb rituals of drug-zonked occultists, and you'll have a general idea of what's up. Fans of Vinterikett's take on grim, minimal synthscapes in particular should look into this. Released in an edition of two hundred copies, the Rituals tape comes with a cover printed on metallic gold paper.