Released just prior to our own 2012 Theologian album Chasms, the four song Finding Comfort continues to follow Theologian mastermind Leech into the vast yawning psycho-sexual abyss that he has been plunging into since 2009, exploring pitch-black realms of electronic horror and nihilistic emotional topography that are even more desolate than his noteworthy work with Navicon Torture Technologies. Starting off with the percussive loops and swells of orchestral blackness that take root at the onset of "Fighting For Nothing", this disc gets into a heavy rhythmic mode pretty quickly, unleashing massive, almost mechanical rumbling and looping distorted drum sounds that are incredibly heavy and pummeling. As that looping blown out rhythm cinches tighter around the billowing black synthdrift and hallucinatory electronic noise, it begins to fade out, slowly replaced by waves of crushing bass frequencies and industrial reverberations, transforming into something more tribal as the beat is stripped of its corrosive distortion before disappearing into clouds of pure drone.

The rhythmic elements are buried in "All I See Is You", which focuses its grinding black cosmic drones into a monstrous force, huge rumbling distorted synths hovering in space, surrounded by layers of crackling electronic noise and buzz and deep mechanical thrum, a kind of massive black industrial ambience that is at first intense and malevolent, but then softens into a shimmering nebulae of sound as it goes on. When the massive distorted rhythm suddenly drops in halfway through, it takes on a sort of dubstep-like feel, a crushing, sputtering robotic rhythm grinding and swinging beneath the sweeping black beauty of Leech's amassed synths and choral drones.

The title track appears out of a massive distorted throb, an inexorable synthetic pulse beaming its signal through the abyss; distant keening vocals begin to seep in the distance, forming into a dramatic, emotional vocal melody that slowly circles through this blackened, hypnotic, soundtracky buzzscape.

At first, the final track "In The Moral Leper Colony" seems like an exercise in harsh noise wall, a dense rumbling wall of static swirling and crashing across the first few minutes, but then strange metallic voices begin to appear and that wall of static dissolves into the background a bit, as new rumbling mechanical sounds begin to form, strange rattling engine noises and hypnotic juddering drones, streaks of metallic high end, sinister spectral singing and trails of ghostly feedback all transforming this into an fearsome hallucinatory noisescape.

Can't recommend this enough to fans of Theologian's black droning industrial. As usual for a Theologian release, Finding Comfort is accompanied by striking visuals, this time featuring photos of a nude model being pulled in opposing directions by metal hooks embedded in her flesh, her skin smeared in an oily black substance...