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After a break of over ten years, Sleepchamber (new spelling!) are back!
We are proud to present you the comeback album of one of the most influential
bands from the American Industrial scene. John Zewizz presents the new band
line-up with a stunning collection of classic SC musick. The album belongs
to the band's abstract dark ambient side but also has a few musical surprises.
"Captured Spirits, spells, white horns and halos, white wings, black wings an a
tail dimension ov fascination. You are who you made yourself or who you want to be.
Destines are planned and maintained. Fate iz accepting that choices & change iz
unobtainable. Enclosed dreams and dimensional ortals reveal audio that welkums
entrance to secret and sorcery and charms turned spell."
"Initially covering the dark ambient side of their music with odd processed
and slowed down spoken vocals that sound drug-induced and unintelligible, the
feeling is demonic and disorientating. Things change however with
"Thundernail" which maintains an element of swirling psychedelic tendencies
and weird possessed voices but this
time lightens the mood somewhat with a simple looped beat.
Continuing the theme of looped electronics but adding an Indian or Eastern
influence is the appropriately titled "Cobra Charm", a track with a certain
hypnotic quality brought through the use of Eastern chanting, flutes and
simple looped rhythms. "Beyond the Exterior" is again quite simple in
structure but instead has a rock feel with repetitive drumming matched with a
discrete dark ambient backdrop and whispered vocals that would benefit from a
toning down of the rhythms to reveal the tense eerie ambience lurking beneath.
Confusing things further is "23 Steps", a track which is basically a slightly
off tune piano loop with very quiet whispered vocals deep in the mix."
(Connexion Bizarre, August 2009)
"Lange Zeit war es ruhig um das berüchtigte S/M-Projekt SLEEP CHAMBER aus Amerika und da
kommt die neue Veröffentlichung unter dem nun zusammengeschriebenen Namen fast einem Comeback
gleich. Die genauere Prüfung der Titelliste ergibt aber eher den Eindruck einer Compilation, denn die
insgesamt 13 Tracks stammen aus der Zeitspanne von 1986 bis 2008 und sind mehr der rituell-
ambienten wie instrumentalen Seite des Projektes zuzuordnen. Trotzdem klingt das Material angenehm
homogen und erinnert an seine große Zeit Ende der 80er bzw. Anfang der 90er. Düster brodelnd und
geheimnisvoll wispernd kriecht der Sound einer gefährlichen Cobra gleich aus den Boxen und verbreitet
eine okkulte Atmosphäre voller Ängste und Beklemmungen."
(Black, October 2009)
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