- Drone
- Post-industrial
- Abstract
- Ambient drone
- Dark
ambient
- Avant-garde
- Microtonal
- Experimentalism
- Sound art
- Drone doom
Comment:
elementally I have reviewed Russian-based artist System Morgue`s
brand new albums like
Froid (2017, Frozen Light) and
Distress
(2018, DNA Production) but
Gegenstrom is a thread from earlier
years and aesthetically there are up some distinct features regarding
comparison. The recent issues are more polished and structured (yet
not suppressing its enchanting magic) and by its structure come into
the experimental/avant/post-rock genre, however,
Gegenstrom is
conversely more hazy and foggy and subsequently oneiric. At its nucleus all of that is being
headed by a ghost-alike drone which is galvanized and impelling by
its physical and emotional appearance. It is like the maelstrom or
black hole governing all the matter coming into their realms. For
sure, it is not a sort of rock music with regard to the artist`s
latter albums, it is more like a decent manifestation within the dark
ambient, drone and partly sound art genre. Yet the self-titled track
is the exception because it is the sort of drone doom rock by
flourishing through oscillating pulses and lofty apexes. At first
glimpse, it may seem the listener is trudging across a barren landscape where all
is thoroughly destroyed and eradicated yet the more you listen to it
the more you will see interesting echoes, glimpses, flickers,
vibrations, even colours to come out of these five compositions. I cannot be wrong by bounding it
geographically to northern, even subarctic hemisphere being generally
dominated by northerly airflows and lengthy darkness. In a word, it is an outstanding
work on a Russian imprint, DNA Production.
