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Artist: DEADWOOD
Album: Ramblack
Year: 2008
What do we have here; another band from Scandivania. Well, band... Deadwood is a Swedish one man project existing since 2003. Various stuff was already released on various labels before the release of the 'Ramblack' album in 2008. According to the biography, the aim is to 'to satisfy my lust for raw and filthy black Industrial music', and we shouldn't have any different expectations for this new album as: 'nothing less than pure fucking darkness!'. Also worth mentioning, this album contains of seven tracks, of which the one standing in the middle features guest vocals by Maniac (Mayhem).
Deadwood doesn't offer you stuff you hear every day. The music is mostly ambient based, mixed with sick noise, dark electro, even a little wave and lots of atmosphere and melancholy. Within all of this, there's surprisingly some variation hidden. 'Deteriorate' is more slow and "gentle", while 'Null And Void' is extremely distorted and sick. 'Null And Void' gets a bit less noisy near the end, to catapult the next track, 'Kadaverdisciplin', straight into a black hole. It switches from disturbing industrial passages to slow and dark ambient, while in the meantime beeing heavely distorted. 'Forakt' is the track including Maniac on guest vocals and musical abuses, which isn't a change in the plan at all. The track overall is very dark ambient, with schizophrenic vocal lines and slightly added guitars. 'Bloodcult' opens more "gentle" and "accessable" (like 'Deteriorate'), as farm as those terms really fit the music, to explode into an outburst of pure sickness. 'Ordo Infernal' is more of a schizophrenic track, mixing weird vocal passages with dark ambient "tunes" and a few harsh noise elements. The release ends with 'Akeldama', which is a surprising end of the release with it's easy going ambient tunes. Overall this album shows a different path though. No metal, no industrial - just insane noise! And to think that the shortest track is already five and a half minutes...
'Ramblack' offers you stuff that will crush the weaker soul with ease. If you consider yourself not one of them, and have the nerves to give it a shot - be my guest, but don't hold me responsible for anything! This stuff is dark... very, very dark... darker than the darkest spot deep within the ass of a dark raven in the Black Forest.
Vote: 88 / 100
Review by: Gerardo
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1. Deteriorate
2. Null And Void
3. Kadaverdisciplin
4. Forakt
5. Bloodcult
6. Ordo Infernal
7. Akeldama
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