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Sunday, March 01 2009 @ 01:00 AM PSTContributed by: Rexington Steel Artist: Marax Title: Black Veil Of The SanguinarianLabel: Crucial Blast / Crucial Bliss Genre: Power Electronics / Dark Ambient Track Listing: 01 Returning To Rust 02 Inside The Inner Voice 03 Bleeding Black 04 Nod Often times as I sit in front of my crappy PC and wonder just how to begin writing about some of the more mundane submissions I am obligated to contribute to our highly respectable underground organization, I long for those few and far between times when I am too awestruck to write (instead of being too pissed off to write because of how little talent some people have)… Fortunately, this is one of those times. “Black Veil of The Sanguinarian” is one of the most profound Power Electronics releases out there. Period. It may only be an EP, but the four tracks delicately guarded by the simple, thin bi-fold cardboard, dvd-sized cover can easily be set side by side among artists like Navicon Torture Technologies, Schloss Tegal or Stahlwerk 9. This is not only because there are sonic similarities in the style with which the tracks are delivered, but because they take on a life of their own, and have a quality that can easily help define the genre that contains it. And, surprisingly, vise versa. “Returning To Rust” is a fine introduction indeed, opening up gradually, but by no means slowly, getting straight to the point with a well-defined, deep rumble, unstable but orderly static, and a seemingly random screech here and there. Not a trace of what anyone would call music is to be found in this track, which can easily become anyone’s favorite of all four. The following, “Inside The Inner Voice” is comprised mainly of what composer Eric Crowe has posted up on his myspace profile as “invocation”, a deeply down-tuned vocal passage paired only with the faintest atmospheres that only become absolutely apparent at the close. To add further insight, it feels like what his album art looks like, particularly the close-up of bones in a catacomb printed on both sides of the simple packaging. Track number three is a marriage of the calm and depth of track two with the desperation and dirt from the first. It goes under “Bleeding Black”, and it would actually be as intense as “Returning To Rust” were it not for its elements being put out at such low volume frequencies. But this is not a problem, and is a method often utilized by Leech of NTT. Here we have a fierce, but subdued distortion, a searing, indecipherable, almost unrecognizable length of screamed vocal, and a low drone that is mostly felt more than it can be heard. Yet it doesn’t just fade out, it practically tears itself to shreds for only a few seconds in the most chaotic way, like a banshee ripping itself out of some trans-dimensional auditory vacuum. The last song is actually as close to a song as the material on this offering gets, and in a very dignified and elegant manor. It is almost longer than the three that proceed it combined, clocking in at almost twenty two and a half minutes, and is described as “a headphone epic”. FUCK THAT. Something as beautiful as “Nod” deserves to let its waves reverberate over everyone and everything within its immediate vicinity. Here, a synth line dominates most of the track, sorrowful, but also having some Martial undertones when let along with the strong, but well placed noises that hold it together. To end this review, I would like to acknowledge a statement made by Mister Crowe included in the liner notes of his fine release. He thanks “those who listen deeper and hear more”, but because of the exceptional work put into the actual mixing of the sounds, everything can be heard easily. I have to say, the man certainly knows how to EQ. But the contents of “Black Veil…” are more than mere sounds, and I believe it is the inaudible manifestations that surface as you experience this work that Eric refers to.