Sodality, The - Beyond Unknown Pleasures

This piece of wax has a double value: to be probably to most allucinated musical UFO who left the land of the tricolor and to be simultaneously the denial to one of the most cherished axioms of certain adepts to the old school industrial verb : Volume=Power. But I don't want to be misunderstood: the puddles of vicious noises that are clinging to the back are of exceptional quality and verging an unheard rage. However if you analyzed with due attention the album track-by-track,you surely notice that the most frightening detail is not the full, but the empty. Like an ancient form of proto-vacuum tire this blank bubbles amplify unnaturally the frequencies until they become an unbearable torture for the brain of the poor unfortunate listener. And the mixing volume it's always lower than other industrial masterpieces,and that's the secret which makes this 12" a priceless treasure. But not the only. Another high point is the use of the voice of Andrea Cernotto and his unprecedent manipulation.For example take the last "Beyond Unknow Pleasure",the title track(and the magnum opus IMHO): this isn't a song,but an aberrant museum of how a human voice can be destroyed and recreated,a perfect how-to for young noisers dummies: 360° distortions, horrific screams almost to break the vocal cords, overdubbing, tape echo, delays,clipping, reverse,pitch and tons of other jedi tricks, surrounded by walls of weeping and mercilessly feedbacks that very few were able to match (Mauthausen Orchestra), like a blizzard of menstrual blood and dead fetuses that sweeps you away in your worst nightmares. "Beyond Unknow Pleasures" is THE real last masterpiece on this damned planet, an essential piece of industrial history and a weapon of ASS destruction(see the magnificent artwork to understand what perversions turned into the heads of these artists). Pure Legend.

The Sodality was surely the best power-electronics band of the 80s', together with Whitehouse, Mauthausen Orchestra and a few other. "Beyond Unknown Pleasure" is among the true industrial masterpieces of all times. The hysterical screamed vocals of Andrea Cernotto and the piercing noise frequencies are sure to torture the listener to death and lead you beyond unknown pain and pleasure. But here's no sloppy noise garbage or pretentious intellectual crap, just pure sexually perverted rock 'n' roll attitude, with a bit of irony. The LP was pressed in very few copies by cult label Aquilifer Sodality, and later reissued on CD in the 1990s' by Verba Corrdige. Unfortunately, both media are totally sold out now.