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KTL - n/t [Mego Editions - 2006]KTL tries to bring together grim black metal riffing with electronic/drone music. Putting together the talents of Stephen O’malley( Sunn0))), etc) and Peter Rehberg(Pita). I’m sorry to report it’s some what of a mixed bag, going from grimly beautiful to well... plain boring. Sadly the problems with dullness start from the onset with Estranged: a near 25 minute track that does little to move away from its held down synth chord and various not very interesting electronic and building guitar effects. I really can’t see what they where trying to get at here, but you just feel the seconds and the minutes drag on. The next track, Forestfloor One, thankfully fares better tying the slow, lo-fi riffing to Rehberg’s twists and bending electronics. It almost feels like a grim black god is reborn into a futuristic strange land, as it makes its way though streets and highways, crashing and destroying all it sees. Black vines growing up from the destruction. Forestfloor four starts with a bubbling magnetic storm of sound, before the slow branding riff chug slaps in with boiling electro edges. Like half-eaten beast trying to stagger out a growing daylight. Its black flesh singeing and boiling. Really, this seems to have captured such a wonderful dense and grim atmosphere that lays very heavy on one's mind. Pity the track ends. Sadly, the last track, Snow, is a rehash of Estranged. For another 13 minutes, not really adding much more to the tiresome investigations of the theme in the first track.It’s a real pity that this is booked with such uninspiring, just plain lazy, tracks knowing both artists are capable of so much more. Maybe they should just have released this as an EP. Nevertheless worth a grim savour for its decaying black middle.   Roger Batty
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