Black Lung is back, with a concept album as usual. "The Coming Dark Age" is an album about the loss of fossil fuel energy and the rol mankind plays hereby. It is an instrumental album, that is very hard to describe. Various genres are touched upon - as the previous album "The Grand Chessboard" was. A bizarre combination of experimental music containing breakbeats, changes in speed, and yet sounding great as a whole. "The Coming Dark Age" continues to build around this sound, and even adds influences of drum'n'bass, techno and industrial. The experimental sounds and experimenting can be compared to a sound similar to Aphex Twin, but Black Lung really is different as it's harsher and maybe more confronting. It's obvious that a story is told, without hearing any vocals that tell it.
Black Lung (aka David Thrussell) has been writing film music for the last 5 years of his now 13-year old career and that is also hearable on this record. Lustmord uses this talent for writing sterile, cold albums, but Black Lung uses it to give a smooth feeling to an album so diverse of influences.

"The Coming Dark Age" is an expansion to the 12"-record "Karmageddon" that was released by Ant-Zen earlier, and for the people who picked that up (the three songs on that record are on this album as well) I'd say that this record is a worthy buy as well. It's hard to get into this album, but that's why it's so interesting and effective. And worth your money.