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HEZALIEL - Before And After The Human / Paradise Lost

Band: HEZALIEL Album: "Paradise Lost" (2018) Paradise Lost is a fifty-minutes experience, divided unto eight titles. And as from opener The Pit Of Hell, you’ll be subject to the hellish, post-apocalyptic and suppressive monumentalism of Hezaliel. Eerie drones, ominous sounds and heavy machinery come in a multi-layered symbiosis, creating a suffocative and industrialised soundtrack. It’s like alien, but not of the astral kind, nor spacelike – rather focusing on that mostly uncomfortable feeling of being lost in a vast space, realizing your painful end is near, but not noticing when that end will actually take your mortal existence in a brutal, merciless manner. Feels lovely, not?! There’s a static sound approach, and at the same time an energetic dynamism, resulting in diversified walls of sound pollution. A couple of excerpts are fairly spookier, then again gloomy, grim, occult or just bleak in a mostly uncomfortable way. The abyssal, somewhat diabolical negativism at the one hand, and the rich, epic harmonies at the other, are contrast that machinate in a contemplative and immersive aural experiment. Impressive is not only the multi-layered levels of synths and sounds. The album hides, and divulges, many subtle aspects, and each listen reveals new elements, whether it be melodic fragments you did not notice yet, excerpts of post-industrial malignancy, manipulated sounds (like haunting voices in the distance, putting a spell on the listener), diverse field recordings, bizarre loops, or simply hypnotic minimalism that succeeds to intoxicate the listener’s brain, rather than fading away into boredom. And as soon as you think that you’ve gone through the core, the album ends with the title song, which is like a mental shock. Dreamlike droning keyboard lines, ominous strings, natural sounds (wind and water?) and haunting female voices complete this metaphorical conceptual album, realizing that there’s nothing left behind the edge of the end, except for eternal nothingness. It is almost beautiful, this mesmerizing ambiance, and the consciousness will not abnegate its fading away into oblivion… Music: Hezaliel Mastering: Sonologyst Image cover: Paradise Lost illustration by Paul Gustave Doré (1866)