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Crown Of Bone - The Serpent & The Rainbow [Altar Of Waste - 2013]

This CDR release sees Indianan based blacked noise project Crown Of Bone offering up his audio tribute to Wes Cravens 1988 voodoo themed movie “The Serpent & The Rainbow”. I guess you’d say that the single forty minute track on offer here is a mix of: sustained & searing black metal guitar texturing, intense noise drone matter, slight HNW tendencies, buried creepy sound effects & horror fed horror texturing.

As with anything put out by this Minneapolis based HNW and dark ambient/drone label the release is nicely presented. The double sided colour sleeve comes inside a clear DVD case, and the artwork takes in stills from the movie( on the front side), and some a sort of occult/ psychedelic  rainbow painting( on the inside cover). The CDR takes in a red to black colour stretched image.

The forty minute track starts out with two very similar sounding black metal guitar drones that are laid on top of each other, and then are shifting from one stereo channel to the next- this creates a very shapeless mass of morose & dense tonality. As the track moves on you get slowly swirling shifts with in it's dense mass of: guitar tone, blacked noise electronics, from time to time buried & wonky horror keyboard dirges, jitter & juddering slow guitar damn harmonics, and other horror filed textural shifts.

To start with this track does nicely summon up a intense, over-loaded & horror drenched vibe of the unknown. But sadly (for the me) the track doesn’t really progress or develop much beyond it initial elements &  it's rather muddled sonic feeling. Sure later on you get more sustained &  clear sounding horror organ/ keyboard/ soundtrack  elements in the mix, but sadly the track never seems to settle down in one  more focused or interesting place. So it all sounds very muddled, & at times it just sounds like COB is  randomly chucking on more & more layers with little thought about destroying the successful elements he’s already created.

So to sum-up- this release started off in a quite  promising & intensely horror filled manner, but sadly it fairly quickly became a shapeless, over layered & unfocused mess that quickly lost my interest.

Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5Rating: 2 out of 5

Roger Batty
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