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It’ has been a long time since we have seen a new release from Tongue Knax and the one I’'m about to review already dates from the year that the world was supposed to end. (you can also check an other review from Tongue Knax I did a wile ago, overhere) Since than the world got a bit closer to the images that Tongue Knax evokes.“Maxim For Subjugation” counts two tracks on each side of the cassette and begins with “Virtue Belongs To Vice”. Ringing and snarling feedback, distorted steel chains, crunched noise and anguished moans and screams form the basics for this nightmare of a track. Sometimes it sounds like the feedback is singing sinisterly. Very eerie. Everything here could be described as controlled chaos, which would be a contradiction. But you can clearly hear all separated sounds blending in nicely together to one big piece of ghastly terror.
The second track, “Pleasure Is Sincere”, has odd, oscillating, synthesizer sounds, bright feedback and delayed, wobbling noise(s). The noise is frantic but also subtle and compliant. The feedback is more orientated on the background than in the first track. And the synthesizer layers sound like aggressive wind, going through the windows and rooms of a ruin or house.
“Maxim For Subjugation” makes me think of a Jheronimus Bosch painting and evokes a world of struggle, pain and suffering. A world of nature colliding with each other and everything else. As always Tongue Knax provides the listener with lush nightmarish sounds and old-school, depraving noise.
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