Hot on the heels of last year's tape EP "Total Purge For The Living" (also on Steinklang), French Vologne present their debut album. "Lost Illusions Turned Into Black Rage" continues, evolves and expands upon the EP, elevating Vologne's industrial soundscapes to the next level. Whilst still firmly rooted in the tradition of analogue synthesizer driven power electronics, death industrial and harsh noise, the album expands the French one-man project's palette with, for example, elements from rhythmic noise.

"Lost Illusions Turned Into Black Rage" showcases also a more confident and nuanced understanding of atmosphere and emotion. Eerie, ominous passages of haunting calm and distorted pseudo-melodies offset abrasive, bleak and nihilistic sections of harsh audial attack. Barking, oppressive vocals hammer in the pessimistic outlook. The shrill, piercing whine of distorted synthesizers pierces the skull like an electric drill. These truly are the sounds of hope dying.

Harsher and more intense, but at the same time more varied and multifaceted, "Lost Illusions Turned Into Black Rage" is a powerful debut album of uncompromising industrial electronics.