Many of you will remember Otzepenevshiye from their split-album with Allerseelen and Neutral in 2008. The band consists of members of the well-known Russian post-industrial projects Sal Solaris and Reutoff. Vir' dates back to 1996, and have released 2 full-length albums. This album is not just a split but something more that combined the planes of both acts and surpassed their traditional sound, not always resembling the individual works of both projects. Roaring guitars and a live drum kit turn into measured industrial drum-machine rhythms, a clatter of iron sheets, synthesizers and field recordings, giving room to overdriven strings and profound insane vocals of Sergey Milushkin (Vir'). Metaphysically this album is a kind of optical device, a magic lantern with opaque glass - matching the anguish and desperation of Russian life. However looking more closely one can distinguish amazing patterns on the black soot of this glass behind which shines the everburning living fire. Ltd x 300 copies with slipcase.

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