Paranoia Inducta – Into Eternal Darkness (Album – Heerwegen Tod Production)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Ritual.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Anthony Armageddon Destroyer strikes back with a new work of his Paranoia Inducta project. This album has been introduced as the darkest work ever achieved by the Polish artist.
Content: After the excellent “Viri Probi”- album released last year, this is a new and extremely dark voyage throughout the corridors of Dark-Ambient music. The composition is mixing dark strings and humming atmospheres together with field recordings and unavoidable heavenly chants. Some passages have been reinforced by crushing- and/or metal percussion. The work sounds maybe a bit less Ritual-like than its predecessor although there are still elements featured.
+ + + : First there’s a great, artistic artwork featuring a front cover, which looks like announcing the trip of sonic terror you’ll have to experience. And the trip indeed is worthy of examination as the opus reveals a solid ‘classical’ Dark-Ambient sound. The chants accentuate the obscure and hostile atmosphere of the music. The tracks have been progressively built up. I like the child sampling running through “Wounded Souls”, which finally ends with shouts of terror. Another essential piece is “Happy Death Day” for its crushing percussion and overwhelming chants. The album has something pretty intimate, but it remains a freaky, great experience in sound.
– – – : I don’t see major negative points at this album, but I get the sensation Paranoia Inducta is still able to do better and especially reaching a total climax.
Conclusion: Paranoia Inducta is one of the most promising projects I discovered in the Dark-Ambient genre during the past years. The Ritual touch on top of the work injects something extra.
Best songs: “Happy Death Day”, “Wounded Souls”, “And Then There…”, “Follow The Voids”, Soundless Echo”.
Rate: 8½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/paranoiainducta
Label: www.heerwegentod.cba.pl
About Paranoia Inducta
Paranoia Inducta is the project of the Polish musician Anthony “Armageddon Destroyer”, started in April 2003. He is the only permanent member and works with invited guests. In the January 2021 ‘Click Interview’ with Paranoia Inducta he described discovering industrial and dark ambient music in the late 1990s through the Swedish label Cold Meat Industry, after starting out in heavy metal bands.
The early catalogue came out on the Polish label Beast Of Prey: the mini CDr “Body And Steel” (2005), the albums “Jama” and “Gloria Laus” (2006), “Black Paper” (2007), “Pia Fraus” (2008) and “Evil Angel” (2010). “From The Depths” followed on Rage In Eden in 2017 and was reviewed on Side-Line. Two collaborations came next: “Mind Games” with DeepDark (Noctivagant, 2019) and “Atra Mors” with Corona Barathri (Speculum Diaboli Records). Viri Probi, released on Heerwegen Tod Production in 2020, was the first album of the current label period.
“Into Eternal Darkness” was released on 15 May 2021 as a limited CD in an A5 digipack on Heerwegen Tod Production and as a download. Anthony wrote and mastered the eleven tracks; Grzegorz Pietranis made the artwork. The Bandcamp notes describe the album as a study of loneliness and silent despair and as a reference to the atmosphere of “Evil Angel”. Later releases include “Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus” with Simulacra and Sealed In Blood (2021), “Unknown Pleasure” and “Demon’s Factory” (2023), Blood Electric and Middle Of Nowhere (2025). Anthony also runs the black industrial duo Panzerkampf and spoke to Side-Line again in the 2025 Paranoia Inducta interview.
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