Lovdahl, Ian
my favorite VS album and one of Fernow's best, in general. pair this with the Prurient tape "CASABLANCA FLAMETHROWER" for an eye-opening night.
Favorite track: Rehearsing For The Attack.
Dan Mckeon
Feel like I'm playing a PS1 game or driving through a middle eastern city at night, really nice stuff!
Favorite track: Rehearsing For The Attack.
For a decade now, Vatican Shadow, one of the many guises of Dominick Fernow, has blurred the lines of rhythmic industrial, ambient and soundscapes to weave throbbing frontline REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED and anxiety disorder. One of the most prolific underground artists of the 21st century, living his art down to minute detail, Fernow’s penchant for seamlessly spanning underground sub-cultures finds Vatican Shadow now aligned with 20 Buck Spin for the first time.
On the new full length album ‘Persian Pillars Of The Gasoline Era’ the deconstruction continues, with layers of collaged synth stabs, low end pulsing dread and ominous sand-swept melodies. And where Vatican Shadow often sets a rigid musical focus with each release, here the full multi-faceted embodiment of the project comes to fruition from hypnotic dance floor repetition, cold metallic percussion, martial bass strikes, and dark melodic noise.
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To further intensify the album Fernow brought aboard Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu, JK Flesh, etc) for the painstakingly detailed mastering process, adding the mysterious vibrance of cold morning mountain light that presages a conspiracy about to unfold.
An unquestionable heaviness permeates the organizational structure of Vatican Shadow, never more apparent than on ‘Persian Pillars…’, and while prior devotees of the scripture will continue to find it approachable, here now the doors have been flung wide open to an entirely new realm of memorialist iconography.
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released September 18, 2020
Produced by Dominick Fernow
Mastered by Justin Broadrick
Photography by Anonymous Soldier
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never been a big death metal fan but this is actually super accessible for the genre, has fun concepts, and personally i'm always a fan of albums with short tracklists and huge runtimes (for individual songs) Great time, good jumping on point for newbies too. alienasu
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An absolutely Amazing Album. Reminds me of a cloudy and rainy Summer Day. Very relaxing. This is how Ambient / Soundscapes should Sound. derwolpertinger