Maeror Tri – Sensuum Mendacia

“Antrum” opens side one with minimal muted sound as jagged svnths jangle. It grows to a huge bassy amorphous sound-shape, drifting with black menace across DALI-esque landscapes. There is no tune here, yet played loud enough, this sound saturates the very body, dousing you in it’s pall, ever growing, reaching out for you in it’s devilry. “Soma 2’ follows this, a swirling, shape-shifting slow-motion maelstrom of sound - the bass suggesting more tune than actually seems to be there, but then, it’s an Earth-bound ethereal thing, so who can tell, The third & last track this side of the cassette is “Choir Of Trancendence” glitters in as if it’s going to explode into something more ‘commercial’ but doesn't, to it’s credit. Jangling guitar echoes and reflects off mirrors, the sound almost sustained it’s so thick.
Side two opens with “Mental Electricity”, a rniasma of sound - what sounds like ‘on-location’, with huge, deep, booming reverberation, as if down in an abandonned Tube Station, every movement carrying forever. Sounds rise & fall, machines talk. “Aegritudo” slowly winds itself along as if the guitar pattern was a crutch, while noise like a Demon wind whirls around and across it. The final track on the cassette is "Animorum Post Mortem Ab Allis Ad Allos Transitio" - more shapeless sub-chaos noiseworks - great slabs of metallic & machine sound climb and fall in a slow, odd phase.

This is an album which has some great moments. It's not so much music as mood sounds & as such should appeal.

Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.