It’s A Lunken Review in Venue Magazine
It’s a Lunken – s/t in this week’s venue:
Ouch! “Many realms of Heavy” are promised in this artfully screen-print-packaged CD’s promo guff, and for once they’re not exaggerating. This is pioneering noise of the darkest and heaviest kind, employing Satan-throttling roars, brutal percussion and behemoth guitar assault. There are quieter more exploratory bits – harmonica and miscellaneous atmospheric textures drifting in like a strange fog after track one; and astonishingly heavy bits – like the churning majesty of the penultimate song ‘Mk7′. The only properly named track, ‘Bound in the Black Bark’ clocks in over 17 minutes and charts a bleak, alienating course from tentative dripping and wind chimery to sinister dungeon-echoing synth, static howl and bleached-out noise. There’s dissonant melancholia, pitch-bending, suicidal muttering. Not exactly party music, but I suspect a very good example of its type – for fans of unhurriedly experimental gloom-noise this is doubtless a real treat.
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