Hungry Diamond – Prayer For Bread (Album – Castle Of Dreams)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Dark-Ambient, Ritual, Experimental.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: This is the second work by the Russian band Hungry For Bread. It seems that the work is based upon a previous recording they discovered accidentally. It’s a single piece of twenty minutes.
Content: Just as for the previous album the composition invites the listener to embark on a sonic trip, which this time is mainly animated by metallic noises. I also noticed Industrial guitar playing and field recordings while drones are resonating in the last part of the track.
+ + + : I like the obscure side of the composition, which has a visual strength. The track is progressively evolving, but I especially will remember the impressive, blasting sound treatments.
– – – : Just as for “Songs For The King” this new work is interesting, but missing a true apotheosis.
Conclusion: Hungry Diamond confirms its Industrial/Ambient approach with some extra personal elements on top.
Best songs: “Prayer For Bread”.
Rate: 6½.
Listen to “Prayer For Bread”:
Label: www.facebook.com/codmusicdistro
About Hungry Diamond
Hungry Diamond, credited in Russian as Голодный Алмаз, records for the Russian label Castle Of Dreams, which issues its catalogue on Bandcamp as COD label and distribution. The label describes the act as a collective from the Ural mountains and refers to it as a Permian project. Its members called their first recording, made in 2018, “quiet metal” or “black lounge”.
Castle Of Dreams released the project’s first three titles on 6 November 2021. “Prayer For Bread” is the second of them, and was followed by “To The Gold Of Cities In The Setting Splendor Of An Unprecedented Sun”, drawn from a live recording of three rituals.
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