Sacred Sorceress reveals a great dose of ideas and subtle variations, navigating between pure electronic minimal abstraction, evanescent meditative flows, to more grounded monolithic rock riffs. Some spoken words and a vast array of samples are also used to reinforce the cinematic aspect and to make it more impactful.
An almost inimitable and intoxicating ominous soundtrack
Alziend Component is an intriguing noisy sound art project with some sparse atmospheric doom-laden rock elements as well as erratic isolationist death-industrial vibes. They first started to produce music for ultra limited editions with an artwork and a conceptual direction you might appreciate from the early years in “subterranean” industrial-power electronic music (notably Broken Flag, Crucial Blast, nuit et Brouillard, and BloodLust!) titled Sacred Sorceress. This new album is welcome by the highly recommended Gladivs Records whose production targets valuable materials from obscure then notorious projects in the field of experimental dark music, from folk to ambient and noise.
Sacred Sorceress reveals an almost inimitable and intoxicating ominous soundtrack with really bleak nihilistic passages, uncanny atmospheres with sometimes hypnotic moves coming from blurred out clouds of micro sounds and other industrial derelicts. The ambience is wonderfully gloomy, gauzy with touches of eerie psychedelia in the mixing. There is a quasi-sonic droning quality in some parts thanks to the use of various broken machines and sinister organs. The album reveals a great dose of ideas and subtle variations, navigating between pure electronic minimal abstraction, evanescent meditative flows, to more grounded monolithic rock riffs. Some spoken words and a vast array of samples are also used to reinforce the cinematic aspect and to make it more impactful.
A purely enjoyable, frightening, and ritualized experience exploring disorientated mental processes, confusion, tension, and mystical phenomena in religious experiences. A consistent album that will easily seduce fans of :zoviet*france:, Nocturnal Emissions, Funerary Call, and Ramleh—as well as materials from Annihilvs (ie. IRM, Theologian et al). Easily recommended and an instant new milestone of the post-industrial music genre.
Sacred Sorceress is available on Gladivs. [Bandcamp]
