Album Review: Anomy

A quite untraditional creation is this Anomy album, best described as an expressive and dark “sound art”, the fluid melodious music has a slow and steady rhythm, with coarse demon vocals. The images and feelings it invokes leave you in no doubt you’re in for a trip, and whether you like it or not you’re going to escape to a place that is dark and gothic.

1^st track: “nihil” begins with a very moody intro and then we hear a typical rant from a critical mother to a teenager, which conjures up familiar feelings of alienation and torment where frustration and misunderstanding are becoming the crutch of the relationship, and could potentially turn a young soul to the dark side. An engrossing composition that draws you in and leaves you a little afraid of the future.

We enter “the great deluge” with a chilling raspy abrasive vocal, this track conjures up dark atmospheres of doom and gloom, all very surreal and disturbing. Which leads nicely into “hell is for other people” another journey to a hard place, this time with some chilling guitar work. The intimidating “bow before the demiurge’ has an impressive storm of power guitars, leading to more devilish vocal death growls.

Overall the gentle slow flow of each track tends to leave you on edge, as it’s all very angst driven with a gothic intensity that conjures up deep feelings and draws images of apocalyptic doom, and depressive pain. An impressive work that shows how far the power of sound  can take you from your reality, if you let it, where you may face a demon of your own, or be involuntary exposed to the pain of someone else’s reality.