Harmony Of Struggle — Tearing Your Mind To Pieces

Tearing Your Mind To Pieces severs up eight slices of constricting and deeply oppressive sound craft, which mixes together dense and tarry industrial ambient, gloomy PE, and general thickly pressing ‘n’ hope muffling noise craft.

Harmony Of Struggle is all the work of Poland’s Michal Kielbasa- who is also in industrial metal project Whalesong, doom drone metal venture Extra-Capsular Extraction,  suicidal BM project Neithan, and neo-folk industrial project Grave Of Love. Tearing Your Mind To Pieces is the project's debut album, and it comes presented a CD co-released by two Polish labels- Zoharum, & Old Temple.

Each of the eight tracks has runtimes between three and five minutes, and each is as damning and hopeless as the other. We move from the cement mixer bass tone chug, gliding junk fork, and distant bayed vocal rants of "Licht und Blindheit".  Or there’s the sinister machine churn meets static crumble ‘n’ hack of the title track.

Moving onto the second half of the album we find the muffled cluttering, industrial glide ‘n’ whistle, and buried vocal murmuring of “Split Second”. There’s “Submit” with its cluttering selection of grey static, low-key electro-saw buzz, and clipped electro-fed vocals. With the album finished off with the suffocation bass buzz, and grim tonal grind ‘n’ hover of “What Happens Here Is Forever”.

From the off Tearing Your Mind To Pieces pushes the level of grey and truly grim to the max- like falling into an endless trash compacting which is feeding into the very floor of a carcass-strewn and blood-encrusted hell.