All of the releases that have surfaced from the cult Russian outfit Adriva over the past decade have been issued in extremely tiny editions and are thus highly sought after by fans of the project's brand of dark occult-influenced industrial ambience. The 2007 disc Losung is no exception, released in a hand-numbered edition of one hundred copies on the obscure Russian label Strely Peruna in a large, hand-assembled folder with an assortment of insert materials. The guy behind Adriva is Denis Shapovalov, who fans of Slavic black metal might recognize from the band Sunchariot, and the desolate ritualistic sounds that are explored on Adriva's Losung share some common ground with the grim pagan death-rites of the later Sunchariot material when that band started to go into more of a 'dark ritual ambient' direction. These six tracks are pure hypnotic dread, each long piece constructed out of simple, rumbling percussive rhythms and looped drums that become the bedrock beneath sheets of metallic guitar drone and densely layered feedback that grind and roar in the background, sometimes turning the clanking, throbbing ambience into a wave of blackened amplifier sludge reminiscent of early Earth and OO Void-era Sunn O))). Mostly, though, Adriva's music is super abstract and stitched together with streaks of black sound, expansive tapestries of nocturnal hum and ceremonial pounding, bleak industrialized wastelands and mechanical drones that hint at the influence of Teutonic industrial dronelords Maeror Tri, buzzing black clouds of apocalyptic locust-chant, muffled female voices and warped, melting hymns, distant factory clanking, charred synthesizer drone, all of these sounds bathed in a cold crepuscular glow. As an added bonus, this edition of Losung also has the track 'Ultra Noir Fetish' that didn't appear on the original Observatory Records release.