The Body – I Shall Die Here

The Haxan Cloak spent months processing The Body's urgent, howled vocals and feral blasts of shredded guitar noise, transfiguring them into the dense and oppressive movements which make up I Shall Die Here. From the plodding, scream-infested bass wash of opener To Carry The Seeds of Death Within Me, this record speaks to your gut. 

Alone All The Way's chilling vocals sound like the pleas of a tortured soul. Hail To Thee Oh Everlasting Pain hauls itself bleeding from washed-out dub into a brutal slab of reverberating bass, while the proto-techno of Our Souls Were Clean finishes with a wall of feedback and bone-chilling screams of anguish and horror. Closer Darkness Surrounds Us allows the reverb-soaked bass to mutter and grumble like a dying man's death rattle, providing, if not calm, then at least a measure of resignation. Remorselessly avant garde, emotionally wrenching, without a chink of light on its clouded horizon.