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Rasthof Dachau is the power electronics project from M.
Sägmüller & Max Presch. Their last release is from 2013, called “Zero
Tollerance”, but I will be reviewing "Prison Poems", a much earlier one from
2006.
Dark and putrid drones call upon the mutilated in “The Sleeping
Rose”, and so do the disfigured vocals with an violent tone. The ringing, low
ranged, frequency drones and loud vocals of “A Prison Poem open up the gates of
a Desolate and debouched world, while in “Catholic Youth” army troops are engaging
in a forever lasting fog that clouds the earth. Total bleakness abides in the
drones and harsh electronics of “Sixty Six Days”. And the flesh awakens in “Requiem
For Barry”, with its bold, aggressive and distorded beats. The primitive rhytms
of “The Cages Of Long Kesh” and its distant, preaching vocals bring obscure
rituals and sodomy. “Weeping Winds” follows with slow, agonising beats, dark organ-like
tunes and 'singing' vocals. The lingering and chaotic decline comes from “Lest We
Remember The Truth”. And in “Modern Times” tribal rhytms team up with depressing
vocal texts. “A Place To Rest” has a docile yet 'silence before the storm' kinda feel,
or marching of boots cascading on the asfalt. “Torture Mill” spills bile upon
the crowd of sorrow, with its frantic vocals and electronics bading in delay
and fuzz. The last track, “The Rhytme Of Time”, plays one last drone seranade
for a decaying world which rests itself in purgatory.
True contempt of the human soul has a face, and it is
called Prison Poems from Rasthof Dachau. A great and powerfull masterpiece.
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