Pa Vesh En : "Martyrs"

Being from Belarus, those involved with this project know what it is like to live on the brink of apocalyptic frenzy, so that anxiety is being channeled here.  The first song is a dismal cavern of torment churning from the distance in pits below. Things are equally throbbing up from the caves, where the blast beats can be felt rattling more where the more constant pulse of the first song had less noise and more pulsing. It is effective and the darkness invoked here feels real, there is a uniform feel to the sound, that I anticipate might force me to call into question how much song writing is being invested here Things do shift with the chplaced more on atmosphere. It sounds like shadows slithering up from the fog with drums a bubbling sound under the agonized ambiance.  

"Among a Stir of Echoes" starts off with what sounds like an industrial crunch and then descends into a crazed feral state that it never really recovers from. If you are just looking for haunted sonic chaos, then this album has you covered. If you are wanting actual songs, well that is yet to be determined. Often lost in reverb the wailing sounds stir a storm of white noise. The song after this one takes the insanity and plunges it into an even deeper and darker circle of hell, with dissonant guitar ringing out. It converges into something that sounds closer to instruments playing music, as the piece progresses. Unsettling is certainly a proper adjective even when the guitar lock into more of a shimmering tremolo picking. 

"When the Lights Out" is a dramatic turn from the other songs as it is mainly orchestral. This is a welcome reprieve from the chaos they are soon back to with  a more angular slant on "the Carnival of Eerie Souls". The instruments hammer in the distance in an other wise black metal fashion. The last song is all over the place pulling from many varied corners of black metal, there is shoe gaze like singing , as well as low death metal growls. It is all through against the dense blackness of torture created here, For all the variance of cacophony collected here at the end of the day, when the stream kept playing the next thing I know we were back on the second song again, so it ended up sounding the same, With that said I will give this album a 7.5, it is an impressive slab of darkness, but serves the hypnotic sound more than writing memorable songs.If you just need something evil sounding this project has you covered . Drops on Iron Bonehead May 19th. 

Iron BoneHead Productions · Pa Vesh En - In The Torment Cell