Pulsefear - Perichoresis
March 23 2008 at 09:49:55 AM
Christened prior to co-writers Michael Blenkarn and Brooke Johnson becoming the better known Axis of Perdition, Pulsefear's first and only public record arrives in five tracks set down between 2001-2006, cycling through another dark and disarming ambient soundtrack, a literal embodiment of the album's title carried out under mock-paranoid conditions. Thematically similar to Cold Meat Industry staple Atrium Carceri (and to a lesser but noticeable extent, Death Metal band Portal), sound and image pour into each other. The album is littered with views of abandoned hospital corridors (a purposeful nod toward the Silent Hill game franchise), walls peeling with infected rot, collapsed ceilings and cancerous soot spread over what little remains. All caught within a nauseous iridescence that shivers the lifeless wreckage alive through unnerving wipes, smudges, sirens, whispering currents of air, rattling gates and more immersive noise. There is enough potential for pathetic fallacy here to go on and on forever and all produced masterfully as well, if at the same time blurring together with other conatured releases.
[Todd DePalma]
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