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pain in progress - CMI.59

Very often words are superfluos when it comes down to describing music. So is the case with Brighter Death Now and the overall harshness and coldness that lurk in the sounds. This was originally released on tape in 1988 and is now re-released on CD for the darkest minds. Total destructive and unpersonal industrial music.

Yay! It's BDN... One of my favorite albums finally released on CD along with 6 more tracks. Pain in Progress is the definition of displacement- Vascillating generators lull the senses and attack the subconcious on the first track, properly deamed, Shatterer of Earth. Once the mind is opened the listener is plunged into a netherworld of sound, what one might hear when walking through subterranean caves or while crossing an underground lake with only a lantern. Ever present is the rhythmic sound of what I can only call the bone crusher... in all it's stages accompanied by a fairly constant droning hum and the occasional scream/torture victem. One of the more upbeat tracks, 'Meat Processing' has a great sample -the vagina is just a hole- along with a sadistic percussion which nearly resembles a dance tune- oh yah.. and samples of a woman moaning in pleasure. Deliciously processed and then this brings us to 'Heart of Stone' in which they ingeniously sample '120 days of Sodom' where the lady is telling a story in the parlour, a wonderfully vile story... It ends on one of the children screaming, "Oh God, Why has thou foresaken us!" The second half of the CD begins with 'Bloodshower' a sparse track- yet still effective. Bloodsex & Murders is low static overlayed with a rhythmic powertool, (sander?) being played on metal.. or perhaps it's just feedback? BDN is an addiction sort of music, it's black noise... it's a filter for reality. This disc is cruel, cold and methodical.

Review by ET