Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient.

Format: Digital, CD.

Background/Info: The prolific Greek musician Themistoklis Altintzoglou already strikes back with a new album. It’s the second opus released by Zoharum which comes one year after the great “Total Division”.

Content: The new opus features 5 songs which are a new exploration of Dark-Ambient territories. Somewhere in between Soundscape and pure Dark-Ambient music Θ achieved the work with multiple Industrial sound treatments. The tracks are progressively built up and are carried by buzzing sound waves mixed with a true sonic arsenal.

+ + + : This artist only confirms his great skills to compose alluring and atypical Dark-Ambient music. The tracks feature an impressive number of sounds and noises. It feels a bit like listening to a sonic puzzle which comes to apotheosis at the very last piece “Fire From Ashes Redeemed”. It also is an album with a strong visual effect.

– – – : The opening piece sounds a bit hesitant but serves as teaser for the main and consistent part of the album.

Conclusion: Θ stands for a sophisticated format of Dark-Ambient music.

Best songs: “Fire From Ashes Redeemed”, “Where 1000 Hands Point”.

Rate: 8.

Artist: https://thetasounds.org

Label: www.zoharum.com / www.facebook.com/zoharum

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Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient

Format: Digital, CD.

Background/Info: Themistoklis Altintzoglou is a Greek living in Norway. He set up Θ (Theta) in 2013 and already released an impressive number of productions. “Total division” is his first work released by Zoharum and features nine songs.

Content: “Total Division” reveals a gloomy Ambient music style, which has been mixed Noise treatments and Industrial sound treatments. It’s an extremely obscure, dark work moving towards a true tormented atmosphere. The last track is a bonus cut featuring MB. We here get a kind of apotheosis with spoken-like vocals and chants. The chants are somewhat classical-like and create a sonic osmosis with icy sphere of the track.

+ + + : “Total Division” is an album with a real strong visual appeal. It moves in between haunting atmospheres and pure sonic terror, which is accentuated by some Noise-like treatments and heavy Industrial crashes. The work is well-crafted and has something sophisticated. There’s a perfect twist between all different ingredients and even more explicit electronic sequences are noticeable elements. I like the obscure approach and sphere emerging of this work, which features multiple great tracks.

– – – : I don’t see real minus points about this work. I’m just surprised the title track is one of the single cuts, which didn’t catch my attention.

Conclusion: “Total Division” is a great and artistic Dark-Ambient work with a wide spectrum of influences. It’s not the ‘classical’ Dark-Ambient production, but an album with a somewhat progressive approach.

Best songs: “Glacial Mass”, “Glacial Mass feat. MB”, “Coal Draw”, “Shallow Well”.

Rate: (8 ½).

Artist: https://thetasounds.org

Label: www.zoharum.com / www.facebook.com/zoharum

Inferno Sound Diaries

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