God Body Disconnect – Spiral Of Grief (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Bruce Moallem has unleashed his seventh studio album under the God Body Disconnect moniker. All works have been released by Cryo Chamber.
Content: “Spiral Of Grief” moves on there where the previous album “The Dormancy” (2021) stopped. An intimate sonic voyage throughout sad, imaginary, paths. Long sound waves have been mixed with dark string parts, field recordings and guitar-like sounds. And God Body Disconnect again injected ghost-like spoken vocals accentuating the sadness -and madness, of the work.
+ + + : God Body Disconnect clearly has a very own approach, kind of sound DNA which is mainly resulting from the cavernous, frightening, whispering, vocals and the obscurity of the sound which remains however delicate for its arrangements. It sounds as a very intimate and personal travel throughout the mind of Moallem.
– – – : I would have liked to hear more vocals which are that particular and accentuating the visual strength of this album.
Conclusion: It all feels a bit like God Body Disconnect wants to face ourselves with our deepest and most hidden demons and frights; a sonic path towards afterlife…
Best songs: “Lost Within The Spiral Of Grief”, “At The Edge Of The Cosmic Sea”, “The Furthest From God”, “Please Forgive And Release Me”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/godbodydisconnect
Label: www.cryochamberlabel.com / www.facebook.com/CryoChamber
About God Body Disconnect
God Body Disconnect is the solo dark ambient project of American musician Bruce Moallem, who worked in metal projects before founding it. The project debuted with “Dredge Portals” in 2016 on Cryo Chamber, the label run by Simon Heath. It was followed by “Sleeper’s Fate” in 2017, “The Mist Between Mirrors” in 2019, and “The Dormancy” in 2021.
Moallem has described God Body Disconnect as a mirror reflecting his own fears, hopes, pain, and emotional states, telling Inferno Sound Diaries in a 2023 interview that “the project can be viewed as a blueprint to my life.” The vocal narrations on his albums are typically recorded off the cuff at night, then built into the surrounding compositions afterward. “Spiral Of Grief” follows that same intimate, self-therapeutic approach, and precedes his eighth album, “The Weight Of Regression”, released the following year.
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