What is your state of mind when when nothingness becomes your happiness & sadness is your path to enlightenment? What is your reality when the sounds of the mass media give you thoughts of ending it all? Who & what do you turn to for solace? Well, what I do is put on Persistence in Mourning‘s new album Confessions of an American Cult, out now via Land of Decay. This album is an audio document of slow-moving sonic destruction created by one man, A. Lippoldt. Persistence in Mourning has deconstructed the skeleton of doom metal & transformed it into something with a face and soul. The songs on this album surround your thoughts & inject them with sense that there is no hope for a society that is run by the artificial lies of the media & a fake government. Persistence in Mourning’s music is challenging because he channels the neurosis that we feel into a tapestry of sound that has the power medicate your despair. What I like about this album is the use of the mind-altering vocal samples that woven into the songs & are just as important as the shrill screams of blackened pain of the vocalist. Musically, A. Lippoldt’s layers of mechanical doom sounds bite into one another & are constructed into monoliths of audio delight that crawl into your nightmares just before becoming your dreams. What you really do not hear on this album is drums, but to me this record still pounds you all over your cranium & is as heavy as a bunker-busting bomb. What really impressed me about Confessions of an American Cult is the fact that he created it with the vision of his brutal mindseye. If you want hear a rad tormented version of reality, tune out of the mass media and tune into the Confessions of an American Cult.
Art by Black Uroborus
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