Deleted Scenes from the Transition Hospital

The Axis of Perdition plays their urban industrial black metal like no other band. Their music is a mix of truly eerie dark ambient passages, black metal riffs and harsh, often distorted vocals. "Deleted Scenes from the Transition Hospital" is my favourite release of TAOP to date, along with "Physical Illucinations in the Sewer of Xuchilbara" EP. This album easily captures an utterly bleak atmosphere of blood, rust and urban decay. It's far less extreme than their debut album "The Ichneumon Method", which is actually more in vein with Anaal Nathrakh. "Deleted Scenes..." is not an easy listen. The guitars are dissonant, the vocals are insane and the moments of multilayered ambient noise provide plenty of horrifying atmosphere. This piece of sonic hallucination is pretty aptly described as the musical equivalent of horror. Perhaps the most surprising part of is the climax of the third track "Pendulum Prey (Second Incarceration)" where torturous and evil vocals lead into both jazz piano and drumming, all while battling the static one would hear if they were listening to a radio station with poor reception. I'm a big fan of industrial black metal and enjoy such acts like Thorns, Dodheimsgard, Blut Aus Nord, Void, Darkspace or Spektr, but none of them creeps me out as much as The Axis of Perdition. My highest recommendation.

Favourite tracks: "Deleted Scenes I: In The Hallway Of Crawling Filth", "Pendulum Prey (Second Incarceration)" and "Entangled In Mannequin Limbs".