Yen Pox – blood music (CD)

Second album from this American ambient darkwave duo of Michael J. V. Hensley (Blood Box, Hollow Earth) and Steven Hall (Gorehallreider, Veil Of Secrecy, Used). Blood music came out in 1995 on Malignant records with a limited print run (it`s sold-out unfortunately). This is a nice and long (6 tracks = 70.01 minutes) recording. I was doing music cleaning and I rediscovered this CD laying around in a box full of trading items. Last time I heard this was more than seven years or so I think. I`m sitting here listening to this. I keep thinking to myself how creepy this feels. Now I remember what ambient darkwave is all about. The `music `is a sonic stew / mix of ominous lo-fi, dark soundscapes, short noise bursts, blurry voice samples (or highly processed), drones, bleak atmospheres, ambient noise, and watery minimal ambience. All the songs are slowly and subtly moving, evolving, mutating. A slow, relentless attack of the senses. The whole listening experience is creepier, scarier with headphones. You`re alone at night, stuck inside an abandoned warehouse, you`re feeling like someone / something is watching you. You hear some type of movement in the darkness. It`s getting near. It`s too dark to see anything. You can feel it slowly approaching. Coming near you. You can smell it`s foul breath behind you. The mere stench. You slowly turn around and… AAHHHHHHHHHH!  A soundtrack of decay, desolation i.e. the end of the world. Simply great. There`s a blood music 2CD re-issue available here: http://www.malignantrecords.com/releases/3177