A CD of such impenetrable darkness as if the entire world has collapsed onto itself! This is music created from a place beyond all imaginable Hells... a place that exists only deep within the macabre mind of its creator, Roger Karmanik. Where he draws inspiration for these recordings can only be speculated, but suffice to say it's not a place one would like to spend their eternity! Tormented voices announce the birth of some unspeakable horror, while heavily metallic, grinding electronics shudder like the last gasps of a dying machine. Together, they forma vision so bleak and ghastly it purges both the mind and soul of everything but the most impure of thoughts. Leave all notions of decency at the entranceway, for they are not wanted nor needed here. Only in the final track, featuring the despondent orchestrations of Mortiis, will you find solace, but even that is a harbour demed unsafe. CMI.
Jason Mantis.