Lingua Ignota – Caligula

Lingua Ignota – Caligula

Sargent House/Profound Lore – 2019

Industrial, Noise, Doom, Darkwave

Rated: ***

I was sort of amazed at the limited amount of attention Caligula by Lingua Ignota was receiving from the neighboring blogs and sites. On the other hand it was only logical. For when I heard a colleague compare her and her new album’s sound to Anna Von Hausswolff rolled up in barbwire and dropped from a few flights of stairs, I Immediately understood, this isn’t for everybody. But then again, the sweet and lovely lady behind the Lingua Ignota moniker has never been catering to every soul around the globe. She is known for her dark, desperate, beautiful and chilling poetry. Other names my colleague dropped were Kate Bush mixed with Amanda Palmer; and I could not agree more. She can sing absolutely gorgeous and also use her voice as a paint remover that not only strips the walls perfectly clean but also makes your ears bleed. Harrowing and painful! An impressive piece of art that can definitely not be qualified as easy or background, this can only be digested pure, raw and with full attention. Even though it might cause you horrific nightmares…

(Written by JK)

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Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper

Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper

Profound Lore Records – 2017

Rock, Doom, Metal, Funeral, Post, Sludge

Rated: ***

Every one-track album lasting over an hour, (or in this case 83 minutes) will be mirrored to Sleep’s Dopesmoker. There is no way around it. But Seattle’s drone doom duo Bell Witch’s  record Mirror Reaper has very little similarities to Dopesmoker. Without making any more comparisons to that legendary album Mirror Reaper is an album full of contradictions. Warm and glowing on many levels but always cold to the touch. Sickening and grief evoking with a slow funeral march, yet also with a glimmer of hope and light. Massive but also modest. The best thing about Mirror Reaper is the way the drums hypnotize and its ethereal, almost esoteric feeling. On both intense and ghostly parts. Cause like two sides of a coin and all the contradictions present, there is a distinct break in this droning funeral doom masterpiece. Which on vinyl will surely be represented by side A and side B. And like the album itself, it is a break from the world, a break from reality, and from past and present. Yes, it sits exactly right on that Number 5 spot of this months Doom Chart. Mirror Reaper is quite an album. You will live in it!

(Written by JK)

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