V:XII — Lu-Cipher-Sabbatean

V:XII deliver a serious dose of death industrial!. It’s the solo project of Gothenburg, Sweden’s Daniel Jansson (Deadwood, Culted) and has been active since 2018. Lu-Cipher-Sabbatean is the project's latest offering.  

Bearing the Scandinavian banner of heavily charged industrial music and being in the same sonic dialectic with the classics like Brighter Death Now, Mz.412 among others and Nordvarg and Trepaneringsritualen from the current flow, the album commences with a straightforward punch, and this intensity remains until to end. It’s atoned to a certain kind of transparent darkness, as if no time passed since the early era of Cold Meat Industry and the likes. However, “Lu-Cipher-Sabbatean” still sounds fresh and modern with a polished production, revealing its full palette. 

Eight endless, nightmarish and ritualistic injections of well-crafted industrial music clocking in at full runtime of thirty-six minutes. It’s a highly detailed and suffocating affair. Venturing in a tradition that never ceased to be relevant, where contemporary meets the scars of the past, forming a strong bond between times. Lu-Cipher-Sabbatean sounds timeless, beyond chronological boundaries, trends and hypes.  

The sound reeks the stench of hell as if the screams of the tormented souls burst out from the depths of an abyss. The punishment of Lu-Cipher-Sabbatean is excruciating. Shamanic chants cut through rotten sonic soil, where the electronics and the bombardment of the beats saturate this funeral cortege.  An album embracing a deathly melancholy and a feeling of pensive sadness, but with martial strength and compositional clarity.  

Scandinavia always was a landmark in the extreme spectrum of sounds and this is a work totally vindication of that fact!.