Trepaneringsritualen is the work of one Thomas Martin Ekelund, who has released albums, EPs, singles, splits, collaborations, compilation tracks, and more since its 2008 inception, through labels including Cold Spring among others. As soon as one sees that label name then one knows that this album isn’t going to be for the fainthearted, as they specialise in in all forms of extreme media, but particularly: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Black Ambient, Japanese Noise, Neoclassical, Neofolk, Orchestral, Power Electronics, Noise, Minimal, Drone, Doom, Death Industrial, Dark Soundtracks and Experimental music.
Ekelund doesn’t disappoint, with tribal drumming, strange musical goings on, and treated vocals, as we head deep into the world of dark industrial. It is incredibly intense, and if this was being played at the volume it undoubtedly deserves, it would be a sonic assault on the senses. The PR company say it far better than I can, “these nine songs immediately envelop the listener and threaten or promise to drive you to the brink of madness.” Bleak, yet somehow with a great deal of depth and body, this is not music for the fainthearted, and there will be many in mainstream society who won’t agree that this is even music in the first place. Available on CD, vinyl, and here https://trepaneringsritualen.bandcamp.com
