This is the first release of the new German label Grentzwert, which looks out for acts playing music which doesn’t follow any trendy hypes. Electronic music which doesn’t know boundaries – and the male/female duo (until now) GREIFENKEIL fits excellent into this agenda. Musically they take their influences out of some Dark Electro, Industrial/Powernoise, Ambient and Ritual tunes, and so you’ll get a really dark and scary full length release somehow comparable with acts like the great yelworC, ARCANA OBSCURA or some dark ANDRACULOID tunes. Yeah – it is in no way related to some stupid dancefloor stuff hidden under the Dark Electro genre – moreover you have to invest several rotations of this CD to get an entrance to the given content. I find it quite impressive how this act deals with ominous synth layers, strange and disruptive percussion efforts and their scary mood generally, but also the lyrically content has some interesting things to tell us. A big theme is the kind and responsibility of the church and Christianity generally – they’re arguing here against a deadly exorcism on a real happened tragedy in the last year through the Rumanian-orthodox church ("Irina", "Memoriam (For Irina)") – a happening which the church hasn’t condemned until today. Another theme is the origin of Europe and the meaning of some rivers ("Indus", "Oxus Underearth"). GREIFENKEIL avoid it to fall into any "good-bad-evil-devil" cliches, which we often get heard out of this music genre. No, this release has definitively a strong intellectual content – and so is also the artwork featuring some nice photos related to the songs. It’s really hard to pick out a favorite, moreover this release has to be seen as an entirely work of art – music, lyrics, art – the formula is well chosen. GREIFENKEIL are also looking for some artists for performance, dance, drama and singing. If you’re interested and talented, please make sure to contact them.