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░ ██ ██ Artist: Mekigah ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: Litost █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2014 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2015-10-10 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Aesthetic Death ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ Australian project Mekigah's third offering would █
█ most likely make the band's even most avid fans █
█ lose interest in the band's music for the most █
█ part; most will leave the room, forced to seek █
█ elsewhere for their dose of strange, orchestral █
█ gothica that was so lavishly envisioned on █
█ Mekigah's first and second studio albums, because █
█ 'Litost' will place those fans on a very different █
█ path, a path not many are going to be too █
█ enthusiastically willing to tread. █
█ 'Litost' sounds almost nothing like Mekigah's █
█ previous recordings. It is harsher by miles and █
█ very minimalistic compared to the lush and rich █
█ textures of the band's debut and sophomore. It is █
█ also showing hardly any signs of Metal music, but █
█ rather insanely cold, stripped-down orchestral and █
█ drum 'n' bass patterns - all performed against a █
█ constant wall of noise and distortion of the █
█ obliterating and most gritty kind. █
█ 'Litost' is the sound of weeping machines; a Domus █
█ Mundi of dejection and depravity, breathing life █
█ into the lifeless, power-drilling and reshaping a █
█ plane of existence that does not support human █
█ existence; a world of acid, acrid fumes, deadly █
█ wheels, gore-covered chains and squealing █
█ cogwheels; an aftermath after a great holocaust; █
█ the embodiment of a freezingly-cold, mechanized, █
█ dystopian, futuristic non-existence. They say that █
█ after a global nuclear war only cockroaches and █
█ other vermin will survive - well, those too, but █
█ also machines; machines that will develop █
█ eventually some consciousness, self-awareness and █
█ auto-sustainability. 'Litost' could very well be █
█ the ultimate soundtrack to such a world, a world █
█ where only vermin and machines roam the land, █
█ machines and vermin. █
█ Mekigah's current sole band member has created a █
█ sonic nightmarish world that isn't easy to digest █
█ both due to its harsh nature and maximum █
█ hostility, harnessing technology and noise ethics █
█ as the album's driving force, while not neglecting █
█ the smaller yet meaningful micro elements that █
█ add, in measured quantities, a more melodious █
█ substance to the cold, all-encompassing, █
█ mechanical tidal waves on display. █
█ Restricting himself to a very modest and select █
█ array of sound aesthetics, Vis Ortis, the guy █
█ behind the name Mekigah, is offering a █
█ steady-state mind numbing sonic terror of the █
█ bleakest, most industrial-sounding kind, an album █
█ that belongs to a bloodline of other dark █
█ anomalies that have dubious ties with metal music █
█ per se, but have everything to do with the █
█ portrayal of fear, loathing, disgrace and █
█ decadence of the higher order: early Godflesh, █
█ Skin Chamber and Gnaw Their Tongues. You could █
█ also add references such as Zaraza and █
█ P.H.O.B.O.S. if you really insist on doing so, █
█ only remember 'Litost' is virtually completely █
█ removed from the traditional Heavy Metal sound to █
█ the point it exhibits none, most of the time - a █
█ wise choice considering the fact 'the metal sound' █
█ could be a limiting factor to the limitless, █
█ fluid, bizarre and bleak extravaganza captured on █
█ this impressive, nocturnal, industrial recording. █
█ It's interesting how 'Litost' mixes brooding, cold █
█ and dark soundscapes with dark ambient, █
█ orchestral/martial and neoclassical music to form █
█ a unified coalition of sounds that are being █
█ synergized into a colossal and epic masterwork █
█ that sounds like the ultimate dark cabaret, if █
█ there ever was one. █
█ Almost lyrics-less, 'Litost' is mainly an █
█ instrumental piece that glues many styles █
█ together, but ironically this eclectic approach █
█ does not derail the compositions from the main █
█ sound and atmosphere - the sonic embodiment of █
█ hopelessness. It's an aural austerity that █
█ slightly varies yet sounds whole, continuous █
█ instead of disjointed, the same elements prevail █
█ on every track and manoeuvre the listener into the █
█ same destination. A common denominator of filth █
█ and rotten flesh governs the album, not by way of █
█ a unified sound exclusively, but by way of 'feel' █
█ - the same acute despair and desolations dominates █
█ each and every fucking track, never mind the █
█ specific stylistic path each track decided to █
█ explore. █
█ 'Litost' is a one of its kind album, removed both █
█ from Mekigah's previous works and from everything █
█ that's habitual and familiar offered by the █
█ majority of the underground-dwelling musicians. █
█ Those who liked the band's debut and sophomore █
█ albums or those who are mainly into Metal music, █
█ will find 'Litost' hard to digest; those who love █
█ their music Dark, with a capital D -- for those █
█ 'Litost' is going to offer a different kind of █
█ experience of supreme negativity and many reasons █
█ to slit their wrists, for the world envisioned by █
█ this very album is not a world worth living in, so █
█ why bother?! And remember, ladies and gentlemen: █
█ cut down the river, not across the road, for █
█ maximum results. █
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░ 1. Total Cessation of One 4:16 ░
░ 2. The Sole Dwelling 6:56 ░
░ 3. Arangutia 7:14 ░
░ 4. By Force of Breath 4:14 ░
░ 5. Sa Fii al Dracului 1:45 ░
░ 6. Wurrmbu 6:43 ░
░ 7. Circuitous Revenge 5:12 ░
░ 8. Mokuy 6:53 ░
░ 9. An Overbearing Insanity 2:52 ░
░ 10. Bir'Yun 5:47 ░
░ 51:52 ░
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