music review:

Dreams Into Dust ::: "No Man's Land"

gothic-industrial-ambient

These 4 tracks spread over 26 minutes strike me as a cross of influences such as Nine Inch Nails - without the angst - and Controlled Bleeding - in their mellower more experimental phase. "No Man's Land" is a tempered and theatrical piece of US-styled slow industrial, with poetic lyrics that conjure bleak landscapes and moods. Some really great soundscapes such as those in "Dissolution". Though this piece would work much better for me if it were instrumental, or maybe if the vocals were in a language I couldn't understand... nevertheless the lyrics are good, but I think with this great atmospheric music I'd prefer my imagination to make the meaning up ie. if in another language I could do that and just go with the emotion and atmosphere - gee I'm being overly fussy here!

While the doomish lyric style and subject matter isn't really my thing, well not anymore, they're certainly much better than most in this fashion. The vocals are a mix of soft husky male singing and spoken word. Which certainly is much much much better than the cliched deep voice scary monster baritone voice so many dark music acts use.

$8U.S./$10 world (Make funds payable to Derek Rush) via:

Chthonic Streams po box 7003 New York NY 10116-7003 USA.

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