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Another of two older cassette-only releases that we have included in this week's new arrivals list from the experimental, Oklahoma-based funeral doom band Persistence In Mourning, Confessions Of An American Cult came out back in 2011 on the Land Of Decay label run by the guys from Locrian, but we're getting it in stock here now for the first time. The eight-song tape features more of this one-man band's mutant version of funereal doom, blending the glacial, gloom-drenched heaviness with bits of industrial music and surrealistic weirdness that often ends up transforming this stuff into something entirely messed-up, and a whole lot closer in feel to the robotic sludge of Joe Preston's Thrones than the deathly funereal crush of Thergothon or Skepticism.
There's a vague concept behind this album that deals in conspiracy theories, death cults and eschatological religious sects, but it's not spelled out, rather seeping out as a bleak, surrealist delirium of mutant metallic crush and gnarled low-fi soundscapes. On the opener "…And Hell Opened At My Feet", the music spreads its black leathery wings out for nearly ten minutes, draping doleful acoustic guitar chords and strange swirling ambient samples over oddly arranged doom metal, the heavy down-tuned riffage slowly unfurling around a delicate piano melody and murky television sounds, female voices and stray bits of electronic noise that wander through the hallucinatory murk, with some sinister reptilian shrieking somewhere off in the distance. That stuff is some Weirdly beautiful low-fi doom, dark and dreamlike and vaguely threatening. And it just gets stranger, slipping off into creepy stretches of looped voices and crackling static, bits of horror-movie piano drifting over distorted sludgy bass riffs that slither around more sampled voices and dissonant ambience. There are some weird crooning vocals that come in, a male voice all slurred and slipping around the grinding bass chords and soundtracky ambience, and across the background, a haze of audio from documentaries on apocalypse cults can be heard. Smears of spacey guitar shimmer over the wretched riffs, and later it lurches into a kind of spacey cosmic doom metal, slow and crushing and still enshrouded in various samples and electronic noise, turning into a strange, almost jazzy dirge at the end of the first side, for moment sounding something like Bohren And Der Club Of Gore layered with a nightmarish sound collage.
The other side of the tape is just as nightmarish and hallucinatory. Creepy analogue synths swell up out iof the blackness, forming clouds of swirling electronic warble and ghostly atonal melody. The sound is slowly filled with Theremins and bursts of crushing doom metal guitar, eerie Goblin-esque jazziness and swells of mangled tape noise and bits of Morricone-esque whistling. It'll sometimes coalesce into something intensely, menacingly beautiful; not so much metal as a kind of weird sound-collage, of which the doom metal elements are just one part. This stuff is pretty abstract, turning into a bizarre robotic dirge at the end, with mutant keyboard melodies lurching over a weird pneumatic machine rhythm, transforming into some weird sort of android doom. This stuff is as much under the influence of Nurse With Wound as it is the most hideous depths of funeral doom and the likes of Thrones, early Harvey Milk, Black Mayonnaise, and similar psychedelic tarpit-navigators. Limited to one hundred copies.
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