Mz.412
In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas... (2lp/black)
...LUCIFERI EXCELSI' - Originally released in 1995 by the pivotal Cold Meat Industry but on CD format only, this is the first time the album IS available on vinyl. While many hail the follow-up 'Burning the Temple of God' as MZ.412's greatest and most influential work, it was 'In Nomine...' where this Swedish collective shifted their aesthetic toward what would eventually shape the "black industrial" subgenre. Here, mulching tones of mangled guitar and electronics course through terrifyingly tribal, ritualistic rhythms, creating an atmosphere of mechanistic, dystopian collapse. Within, dislocated and desicated voices of "humanity" are sonically slaughtered and serve as eerie counterpoint to the ever-tense pulse the album drives deeper into the helpless listener, holding him/her in thrall.