Veinke: Collection III - The Black Summer

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(Triumverate - 2000)

If this sunny season is starting to seem just a little too warm and bright, Veinke's got the cure for those summertime blues...

Like dropping down a mineshaft into hell, Collection III - The Black Summer will provide marrow-chilling soundscenes that no air conditioner could hope to match...

Opening piece i is befogged with gaseously hovering resonance. Mutedly booming kettledrums and clattering metal accents add further texture to the writhing contortions of squawl-and-drone which stir beneath ii; a light dose of evil-monk chant also drifts past. Stifling metallic atmospheres converge upon the cavernous glare of iii (20:58) which glitters into the ominous lower registers of chasmic choral moans.

A more-aggressive sonic show-of-force growls, pings and clatters in iv's opening moments; creepy submerged vocals infest the latter. The screeching, industrial-strength steambath of v precedes the grisly (perhaps even gristly) wet rustle of unknown activities in vi (2:21).

Sizzling buzzes and puttering-around-the-dungeon sounds ride atop the spacious dronescapes of closing track, vii.

Veinke's Collection III - The Black Summer is no day at the beach... primordial oozings are tastefully strewn with not-too-cartoony horror-show effects. An 8.2 for a morose season.

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This review posted June 30, 2001

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