What I have here is the CDr edition of this album by Formication. In the online press release notes I read that there is also a version of this album which includes a hardcover book, of which 9 copies are signed and have an original print. You can get one of those 9 for $75,-. The book can also be bought separately.

This is a good example of creating an interesting industrial ambient work, full of interesting and deep sounds. Understanding the press release correctly, besides the very limited cd version with the book, as I mentioned earlier, it is only in mp3 format. So that means that most people will be listening to this in mp3 format, which is a shame, since mp3’s can never fulfill the task of giving you the best in sound. I do hope they also release it as a normal album, because the quality of the music demands it!

The music on this album is a combination of rhythmic industrial (though it is not powernoise), deep drones, sound experiments and some cinematic music. A lot of times it’s really trance-inducing like for example the lengthy track 6, ‘All Hell & Despair’. Also the second track, ‘More Joy Than You Could Possibly Know’, uses repetitive sounds to a trance-like effect. The fifth track, ‘Black Outside’, is pretty dark and scary. It feels as if the world around us is becoming a black void with hidden creatures in it. Then with the seventh track, ‘Underearth’, we arrive in a sacred and dark place. There are some drones to be heard and some humming chants. A very introvert song, akin to something like Lustmord mixed with Raison d’Être. The tenth track ‘The Mountains Are Machines’, is a real heavy industrial song, at least for this release, with very rhythmic percussion.