Vasilisk

Their last LP, issued in 1000 copies and long deleted now; again, an awesome album, Awakening gives us ominous ethnic percussion, growing in intensity, while Photongnoul is slower, more mournful. Taksim II provides energetic, rolling, thundering drumming, and the side ends with Fangs and Claws, returning to a more relaxed sound, running water and undulating synth tones setting the very beautiful mood, breaking into a powerful rhythm at the end, closing the side perfectly. The live side opens with waves of synthetic energy, sliding into a strange rhythmic drive. The drums are occasionally more rocky, and as a result it's a lot less enchanting. Still beats the pants of most music around nowadays though! It all has a Japanese feel without it being Japanese music