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Album of the day: Corrupted – Garten Der Unbewusstheit

Posted on Friday, September 2nd, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Sputnikmusic: The mysterious sludge outfit from Osaka, Japan has returned from the shadows once more to offer a follow-up to 2005’s El Mundo Frio. Garten der Unbewusstheit, or “Garden of Unawareness”, could not be a more apt title for the band’s fifth album. The contextual meaning of the German “unbewusstheit” is acting without deliberateness, self-awareness, or self-consciousness.

This record appears as the very embodiment of that idea. It’s almost as if the moment the record button was pressed, each member entered a trance to relay through instrument all that was seeded within his own being. What surfaced is a perfect balance in Corrupted’s hybrid sound, combining the hypnosis of drone, the crushing heaviness of sludge, and the unfiltered emotion of doom.

Clocking in at just over an hour, the album opens with the gentle plucking of electric guitar soon finding itself to be accompanied by delicate cymbal tapping. The bass drum is struck decisively. Soon, a cold, low growl enters. The light of the sun begins to fade as storm clouds begin to creep in overhead. Drop by drop, bead by bead, the cold rain sparsely descends from the heavens to chill the flesh. The icy precipitation goes on, varying in intensity but never quite reaching downpour before slowly fading out.

Continue reading: Corrupted – Garten Der Unbewusstheit (album review) | Sputnikmusic.

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