Not much information was given to us about this CD so I initially I was stumbling in the dark until I checked out the website. This fourth self released edition of "Skleros" by Kevin Schlueter (aka Vehemence 6.2) contains 83 tracks (65 are obviously silence) of really good experimental industrial music and is freely distributed as a simple CD-R in a paper pouch. Mostly industrial music with a dark edge and a power electronics approach that would fit on Cold Meat Industries or Ant Zen catalogues but with a deep intimate beauty that graces the music with this ancient and quasi mystical aura. Maybe it is the recurring first world war iconography, but even without gun shots, explosions or other military samples, it really sounds like the perfect soundtrack for distant scenarios of war in the cold European fields. The melancholic intermezzos of largely reverberated pianos with noisy backgrounds (#3); or the grand and deep moments of ambience scanned by pads and hints of rhythmical patterns (#4); the industrious factory machinery sounds disturbing the peace of sombre atmospheres like approaching troops would (#5 & #9); or even the detuned and ancient orchestral samples (#6 & #13); and of course the vocal samples of those who speak to large masses of gathered and cheering people (#9); it all really evokes the sadness, despair and sorrow of those who survived and crawled out of their bunkers to find nothing but a sea of dead bodies laying in the dust and covered by the clouds... but maybe I am letting it go to far, maybe I am on the wrong path here... I never really liked all those fancy and pretentious interpretative music reviews anyway. Music is subjective and everybody will interpret it differently. I was influenced by the colors and the style of the art work of the website and the sticker on the paper sleeve of this CD and thought of what I wrote, but after all, like Kevin points out in his website: "a man is but the sum of his memories". Anyway, it's a really nice CD and there should be nothing stopping you from requesting your very own copy of it, especially since it is absolutely free. I also got a preview release of what I think is or will be "Recollection, vol 1", Kevin's next release, which is kinda more rhythmical and electronic (like the super pounding and ripping Dive-like power industrial track #17 on this "Skleros"). Maybe next time he'll also send us a press kit or something...