Paranoia Inducta – Blood Electric (Album – Heerwegen Tod Production)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual, Industrial.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: ‘Anthony Armageddon Destroyer’ is already active for more than twenty years under the Paranoia Inducta-moniker. The new work is a new conceptual work where ‘dimensions and worlds infiltrate, mysticism mixes with magic and the virtual world with reality’.
Content: Paranoia Inducta announced this album as being a bit different to previous works. I still recognize the strong Dark-Ambient and Ritual touch recovered with harder, Industrial sound treatments. It remains a poignant sound production which maybe sounds a bit more intimate than usual. The last tracks are more Ritual-driven. Notice by the way 2 cuts are featuring guest vocal parts by Japanese artist Kenji Siratori.
+ + + : The album is available as ‘normal’ CD but still as a great and artistically designed A5-digipak format -which is a rather common format for this artist. Sound-wise I remain addicted to the Ritual side of this Polish artist. It comes through during the very last part of the work and especially the title-track featuring a kind of Indian, mystic, chants is a true apotheosis. I also like the heavier, Industrial, sound treatments which are mainly emerging at “Replicant Suicide System”.
– – – : The main strength of this project is the mix between Dark-Ambient and Ritual music which I’m a bit missing at the first part of the work. The tracks featuring Kenji Siratori aren’t exactly the most significant ones.
Conclusion: This is not the Paranoia Inducta-album I would recommend as first introduction although it features cool Ritual passages.
Best songs: “Blood Electric”, “Mysterious Motion”, “Replicant Suicide System”, “Embryo Commands”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/paranoiainducta
Label: www.heerwegentod.cba.pl
About Paranoia Inducta
Paranoia Inducta is the project of Polish musician ‘Anthony Armageddon Destroyer’, founded in 2003 after early experience playing in Heavy-Metal bands and a growing interest in Industrial and Dark-Ambient music discovered through the Swedish label Cold Meat Industry in the late 1990s. Releases are issued through Heerwegen Tod Production, including the album “Middle Of Nowhere”. The artist also runs the Black-Industrial duo Panzerkampf, whose debut album, “Extermination Engineering”, arrived twenty years after that project started. “Blood Electric” continues the Paranoia Inducta discography on Heerwegen Tod Production.
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