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The CD starts with Leviathan, (8.5 minutes), busy keyboard rhythms over deep quickly shifting notes. Interesting but nothing special.
Track 2, Rhode Kill, is very short and has some distant choral like sounds over piano like notes, completed by distant thundery sounds, and keyboard filling, before blending into Panzer. Appropriately enough, this has a much more aggressive beat, with deep pounding bass lines, and other effects soaring and resonating away over the top. By the end the pace has slowed, and we blend into the next, gentle track, Different Light.
After this comes the meaty title track. Introduced by a complex brief repeated keyboard refrain, (reminded me a bit of Klaus Schulze's "Crystal Lake"), this soon has interesting theses developing. Before long it is growling and thundering away, topped off by power melodic lines. Great stuff!
Savage Messiah begins with less form and structure than we have heard so far, but soon the low rhythms are busy, and trills are adding structure and range. Soon we are back in familiar territory to good effect.
Rise and Shine features some bits that are very reminiscent of side 2 of T. Dream's 'Rubicon'. I won't go into detail on other individual tracks, suffice to say the style is maintained.
The tracks flow smoothly and naturally into each other, and the album forms an effective and powerful whole. Overall it is very much a case of Redshift playing to their strengths, using the full range from deep bass to high pitched twiddly bits, to produce an aggressive powerful doom-laden work.
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