���More blackened pagan weirdness from Vanguard Productions. The first of two tapes I picked up from Bacchanal, the side-project from S.L. Jarson of black metallers Equinox, Purity Through Darkness is the work of easily the oddest sounding band on the label, delivering pure electronic music that draws heavily from classic 80's house music and kosmische ambience, primitive EBM, and tinged with shades of other early industrial music, all woven together this weird, somewhat crude Satanic dance music that's guaranteed to disgust staunch black metal purists. Despite the project being released by Vanguard, there's nothing connecting this to black metal, but the grim, pulsating electronic soundscapes definitely have a sinister feel that you'd probably dig if you were ever into stuff like Jon N�dtveidt's De Infernali or the more experimental electronic stuff from Ildjarn.

��� There's a vintage feel to this stuff, you could have told me that this tape was more than twenty five years old. From the pulsating low-fi techno of opener "Blood Of Titans" to the swirling murky synthscape of "Cernunnos" and its cosmic fog of crackling electronic drones, squelchy bass, and searing distortion, the tape then slips out into a warped Tangerine Dream-esque wash of mutant galactic analogue drift, hypnotic breakbeats thudding beneath vast frequency sweeps and demented synth arpeggios, the tracks scattered with unsettling spoken word samples, swells of wobbly dubstep-esque bass and classic EBM rhythms, primitive gurgling synths and wailing sampled female backing vocals, and laced with the occasional creepy keyboard melody that sounds like something from an 80s horror flick. There's a dark, threatening feel to some of that soundtracky stuff that shows up later in the tape, especially when slow pounding percussion starts to rumble at the center of a black nebulae of malformed electronics and sinister choral synths, the track "The Strife I Wove With Vein Of Pride" even resembling something from one of John Carpenter's late-80s soundtracks. There's little in the way of vocals, save for a couple of tracks that feature dozy female voices reciting what sound like biblical verse over the skittering beats and ominous dark ambience, elsewhere reciting lines from Crowley's "Hymn To Pan" and other writings over muted technoid throb and swirling synth chords.