TURBONEGRO
Retox
(Cooking Vinyl)

ENGINEER
The Dregs
(Black Market Activities)

MARBLE SHEEP
Message From Oarfish
(Funfunvierzig)

OROKU
Living Through The End Time...
(Inimical)

LIGHT PUPIL DILATE
Snake Wine
(Lifeforce)

TOMBS
S/T 

(Black Box/Level Plane)

LIETTERSCHPICH
I Cum Blood in the Think Tank

(Heart & Crossbone)

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I know the average man’s musical taste is supposed to have evolutioned substantially during the last seven years or so. Ever since doom and ambient went out on a date; we’ve been seeing their little offspring popping out of everywhere and us lovers of all things extreme and weird are destined to make sense of unmusical music. The children in question are never truthfully beautiful; that’s mostly because, like everything that’s got at least a sparkle of doom, it’s got a considerable downside to it.  Mostly of the negative kind.  Albums treading these waters are bound to lean more towards one genre than the other, an impossibility only plausible to break through speed and purposeful distancing from the influential sounds of Sunno))). Such is the latter’s influence, almost every review of a droning band will cite them as reference.

In the case of Wilt’s latest ambient experiment Dark Meadows, we are talking plenty of drone, push buttoned mechanical burps, a permeating obscure aura, old school sci-fi synth work, psychedelic sheets over more psychedelic sheets, toneless experimentations, etc etc. The image I get for the first three tracks is that of an inhuman torso. Since it lacks limbs, Wilt’s latest can’t really walk or go anywhere, presenting as a result inert blocks of metallic noise that are served up in random fashion. Not that Dark Meadows is impossible to enjoy, like much of the work of other experimental contemporaries is hard to get through it and works best with visuals on top. With the CD in hand, al I can do is look at the gorgeous cover and wonder what the music will make of it.

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