Very different from "Spite" (the album released at the same time) THE SEDUCTION OF MADNESS is a MCD which explore mental insanity bringing to audience three untitled suites which ends one into the other. Into twenty three minutes of obsessive orchestral sounds with percussions in evidence, Sophia creates a beautiful and visionary trip into the labyrinths of insanity. Like a soundtrack the work has got calm and violent moments which both create very well a sensation of "quiet terror", something inevitable which step after step is coming to catch you. Inspired by the Goya's painting titled "Saturn Devouring His Son" and by Pettersson's interests into psychology (in fact the CD has the same title of a Edward M. Podvoll's book which has got as second title "Revolutionary insights into the world of psychosis and a compassionate approach to a recovery at home") THE SEDUCTION OF MADNESS will have a deep impact in all the audience, even if you aren't an industrial music lover. Three tracks perfect for an emotional voyage into your deepest and hidden feelings.

Eeyow Karoom is a side project from Mr. Cosmo (Cosmonauts Hail Satan, IronManAvenga) based on power electronics. The CD contains twelve untitled tracks which their loops, exploding sounds and treated keyboard sounds create a nightmerish atmosphere. Each track has got a different approach and sounds so the listening isn't annoying. The effect created is able to deviate your attention from reality and even if you don't like disturbing noises you'll find it like the flow of a river of noise which sometimes is culling you and sometimes it's turbulent.

Printed in 50 copies as a CDr (as all the Verato Project releases) this is the second album by sound-experimentalist Mr. Bernd Spring, also known from his own Records Label Dhayna Records and his experimental bass-rock project DEEP. The CD contains one hour of floating/dreaming noises all in eight tracks. To be honest I prefer the other Verato CDs Claudius sent me because here the tracks tend to be long and a little static (even if the sounds are different for each track) and I lose attention and this kind of sounds in such a situation become like a buzz in my ear...

Released in a limited print of only 50 this 3" MCD contains seventeen minutes of ambient industrial noise. Even if three tracks and a bunch of minutes aren't enough to judge a project the first time you approach to it, I've got to say that I liked Ovum a lot. It could be that the dark atmospheres and the drones he uses are interesting and disturbing at the same time, but the thing that thrilled me most is the cover version of "I Wanna Be Your Dog". I could never imagined something like this: the melody is build with humming sounds and the vocals are far away just like echoes in a windy day. Good enough to begging for more.

This release by the independent Sector19 features industrial musicians from the US, UK, Italy, Germany, Belgium and France. It opens with a track from the French group Jailbird which sounds amazingly like The Young Gods. The second track is by the industrial rap group SMP which have gained quite a bit of notoriety on the Net of late and have had music featured in various public spots as well. Projeria is more of a hard driving beat heavy industrial pounding with a bit of Noise influence. Aiboforcen has been featured on many indie comps lately and it's easy to see why. They combine elements of Industrial, Synthpop and EBM into a sort of futuristic pop sound. Six Past Seven combines some heavy Noise influences with Industrial throb and repition. Mouth of Indifference combines Industrial with a sort of trip-hop and ambient feel. Chaos Engine, a mainstay of Wasp Factory Recordings, is an Industrial rock group which sometimes reminds me of Sex Gang Children with their dark and nearly punk elements. System 81 creates a sort of cyber-noise ambient texture. Arkam Asylum, also on Wasp Factory, is also industrial rock but having more of a sound that reflects what might happen if you combined Alien Sex Fiend with Marilyn Manson. Mneumonic takes into a more Front Line Assembly like territory with "Human Fragments" which combines elements of the cyber sound with drum-n-bass and other elements known to the FLA sound like the dark whispery vocals. Tin.RP is ambient Noise. Mind Flux is metal industrial with grovelly vocals and caustic overtones. St. John's Eve is also a Noise track with lots of distorted vocals and an overall mellow and very dark tone. Monoid is the side project of Martin Steinebach also known for his industrial ritual project Conscientia Peccati. However, Monoid deals more with the hard beat and distortion aspects of Industrial music but also contains some tonal and atmospheric elements. The song by AutoCad is very digitalia and Kraftwerkian in it's overall structure. Reminds me somewhat of Trans Europe Express for some reason. Silencer is anything but, it is Noise - loud and chaotic. This second track by Jailbird is very different from the first and is more Gothic in general overtone.