CMI label founder and cult industrial musician Roger Karmanik has created a mentally disturbing and brutal album with "Innerwar". From such earlier, more subdued death industrial records as "Great Death", BDN has moved on towards noisier power electronics.

As a short summary, if this album does not kick your ass, you aren’t listening loud enough (or probably not listening at all). Although absolutely the most intense moments are found in the tracks "Innerwar", "No Pain" and "War", there is not a nice moment to be found in here. It is pure destructive sonic waves of feedbacked energy. This is what it sounds like when your house is being bombarded with heavy artillery.

If you have the opportunity to experience this album under narcotic influence, the experience is even more mind-shattering and fully recommended. The sharp, cold machine screeches, low throbbing rumbles, steady distorted noise, a stream of spoken-word samples concerning violence, rape and REALITY, the interference between all the high and low frequencies… it all works on a symphonic level, reminiscent of the work of greatest classical composers.

After only a few minutes, a concentrating listener will experience a trance-like state in his mind and alternating waves of pain and pleasure, as the moments of calm create fear in the expectation of the next attack and the moments of assault create peace and profundity in it’s painful amount of volume, like orgasm, like the final release of death, fulfillment in a state where the concepts of good and evil, peace and war are understood as meaningless except in the context of each other, a release into chaos and the shadow-side our existence.

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