Zoloft Evra – Wounds Of No Return (CD Album – Liquid Death Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient.
Background/Info: Italian project Zoloft Evra has been active since 2014. They previously released 2 full lengths on CD and still released material on cassette format. They now strike back with their third full length album.
Content: “Wounds Of No Return” is mainly inspired by the darkest and most tormented formats of dark-ambient music. The tracks are featuring half-spoken like vocals, which resonate like ghosts in lost cellars. It only empowers feelings of terrors emerging from the work. You also will notice a kind of breathing sound noises and dark, vibrating sound waves.
+ + + : First of all I have to mention the great, artistic and cold-like artwork. It’s pretty illustrative for the dark and terror-like sounds from this work. Zoloft Evra accomplished a real fascinating and ultra-freaky work. The tracks have been masterly composed and I especially want to mention the great progression in the tracks. You’ll notice numerous sound effects and creepy, little noises while the ghost-like vocals are really essential. This is a work with a strong visual appeal.
– – – : The album features 6 tracks. I like the progression running through the first 4 cuts, but both last pieces can’t convince me a similar way and even appears to be the anticlimax of this great work.
Conclusion: I already heard a few previous works from this band, but “Wounds Of No Return” definitely sounds as their most successful opus. It’s a damned good tormenting sonic experience.
Best songs: “Hooks Through Your Flesh”, “Last Injection Kiss”, “Wounds Of No Return”.
Rate: (8).
Artist: www.facebook.com/zoloftevra
Label: www.facebook.com/liquiddeathrecords
About Zoloft Evra
Zoloft Evra is an Italian negative drone ambient project active since 2014, formed by members also active in Apolokia, Macelleria Mobile di Mezzanotte, Der Noir and Demonologists. The project released “Negative Infliction Pleasure” (2015), the cassette “Self Destructive Comfort” (2016, Luce Sia) and “Murder Chamber” (2016) before “Hypoxyphilia” (2017), which Side-Line reviewed the year before “Wounds Of No Return”. Zoloft Evra later appeared on the compilation “Deadlife” (2021, Frozen Light).
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