The recordings of this album dates from
April 1999, but was released in 2006.
“Chants Du Désespair” is the first track of this true classic.
Delayed chanting/vocals (Tibetan style) with very minimal hissing on the
background, and a distorted high tone open the album. The second track “La Chambre à Gaz” begins with a heavily distorted, scratching
and banging sound, accompanied with feedback repetition and twitching vocal-like
sounds. Its a 10 minute long slab of nightmarish noise. More bleaker than this
you won't get. “Syndrome Gravitationnel” seems to be a mixture of mangled
vocals and synths, with a continued industrial high shriek throughout the
track, very nice. “Réponse Sans Question” the fourth track, opens with raw overloaded,
feedback drones, almost noise. They are accompanied by delayed crunched noises.
“Le Pendu Est Mort”, a very short track, has frantic, distorted vocals with a
weird effect. “Désertique” is a more chaotic track with oscillating synths and
primitive, noisy vocals, which get repeated throughout the whole song and are
ending in feedback. “La Chambre Psychédélique” has a primitive, banging
percussion loop and high ethnic sounding noises. Track eight “Réalité: Invention Humaine” is the longest track of this album and also opens
with frantic and sickened vocals or effects?, joined by harsh noise. As the
track evolves, a slow, high static, tone loop comes in, together with all kind
of weird effects. But they get quickly annihilated again by the previous mentioned
sound. In the last part feedback joins in with occasional, faint vocal like sounds. On this track one can imagine that mankind has
returned back to its primitive state. “Les Derniéres Minutes” opens with a high
tone and an animal like moaning loop. Different noises on the background and
feedback follow, but it doesn’t get messy like in the other tracks. This is
maybe the most calm one of the whole record. “Le Cri Du Pendu” is a short
mixture of weird effects and vocals, much the same as some of the other tracks.
And the last one called “Ergonomie” (also a very short one) has bad receiving,
signal sounds.
Brutal, bleak and uncompromising: 'Le Cri
Du Pendu' from Âmes Sanglantes has it all.
This album takes you to the darkest
corners of mankind and beyond.
Also worth mentioning is that the packaging/artwork prints are done very professional, because it feels much more like a CD and not so much as a CDr.