Dødsmaskin – Ødelagt (Vinyl Album – Tumor / Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, industrial.
Background/Info: Norwegian project Dødsmaskin is back on track, unleashing their fourth full length to date. It also marks their debut on vinyl format, “Ødelagt” featuring five songs.
Content: This project doesn’t repeat itself although they remain faithful to a certain dark fascination. This work is definitely more cinematographic-minded. It clearly sounds different from their outstanding debut work “Fullstendig Brennt”. The album explores dark sonic horizons created by field recordings and a truly noise arsenal of manipulated sounds and dark sound layers. Some tracks are ending in a noise apotheosis and I here have to mention “Isolasjon” as the most significant cut.
+ + + : “Ødelagt” invites the listener to join a nihilistic world. The music creates a feeling of depression, which is constantly reinforced by obscure atmospheres. The album also tends to prove that this project is in constant motion. Even if I have to admit I definitely prefer their debut work, this new opus stands for a dark voyage to obscure and unknown fantasy places. It’s a visual experience touched by the power of evil forces.
– – – : This is a cool listening, but without the original magic I felt when hearing this band for the very first time. This work is more ‘classical’ and sometimes ‘predictable’.
Conclusion: Dødsmaskin has been one of the best new-coming projects in the last few years in the dark-ambient/industrial music area. I don’t consider “Ødelagt” as ‘the’ referential album although it remains a freaky experience in sound.
Best songs: “Isolasjon”, “Det Som “Ødelegger”, “Svart Tundra”.
Rate: (8).
Artist: www.facebook.com/Dodsmaskinofficial
Label: www.malingnantrecords.com / www.facebook.com/malignantrecords
About Dødsmaskin
Dødsmaskin is a Norwegian project formed at the end of 2014 by Peter Vindel and Kjetil Ottersen, who met sixteen years earlier and bonded over acts such as Converter and Mz.412 before developing their own noise-oriented drone sound. The duo signed to Tumor/Malignant Records for the debut album “Fullstendig Brent” (2017), telling Side-Line in a Click Interview that the partnership let them focus on the music rather than promotion.
“Ødelagt” (2019) marked the project’s fourth full-length and first vinyl release, followed on the same label by “Verdenssmerte” (2020) and “Herremoral | Slavemoral” (2023).
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