Merzbow
Black Rome
Label: Slowdown Records
Series: Merzbow Archive Series / mid 2000s (2003-2005)
Format: CD
Genre: Experimental
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The ominous title evokes fallen empires, decadent excess, historical weight. Rome - eternal city, center of classical and Catholic civilization - becomes "Black," suggesting inversion, corruption, death. Perhaps this is Rome during plague, Rome in ashes, Rome as symbol of all empires' inevitable decline.
Black Rome channels these associations into dense, imposing noise constructions demonstrating apocalyptic intensity. Empire rises and falls; Merzbow provides the soundtrack to collapse.
