Manifestation, by CLOAK OF ALTERING

Manifestation

by CLOAK OF ALTERING

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Ken Goodey I'm not 100% sure why I like this - perhaps because it's wonderfully bizarre, but I think it’s more likely that I am completely in awe of just how Mories manages to be both creative and prolific without the latter seeming to have a negative effect on the former. I'm not saying everything he does is faultless, but I can confidently say that I have found his work as of Cloak Of Altering & Gnaw Their Tongues, extremely interesting, intriguing and massively enjoyable. Favorite track: -3.003486962(6)+—10-66.

GeN2Mo Symphonic Black Metal played on the sinews of a cthulian monstrosity trappped in a collapsing cyberspace. Favorite track: Cave Systems Of The Outer Moons.

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1.	Manifestation 01:49	buy track
2.	-3.003486962(6)+—10-66 06:55	buy track
3.	Stretching Infinity 07:28	buy track
4.	Cave Systems Of The Outer Moons 07:58	buy track
5.	Hidden Celestial Deity 07:45	buy track
6.	Black Hole Cloaks 08:27	buy track
7.	Parasitic Altering Sickness 06:43	buy track

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One of many offshoots / alter-egos of the notorious Dutch industrial black metal outfit Gnaw Their Tongues, Cloak Of Altering returns to deliver the follow-up to the maniacal 2014 album Plague Beasts, unleashing yet another brain-scrambling blast of mutated symphonic black metal, nightmarish breakcore madness, and hellish electronics fused together into a sweat-soaked, chrome-plated nightmare. Compared to previous works, the seven-song Manifestation is a slightly less chaotic monstrosity, giving these blackened maelstroms added room to breathe, but the cumulative assault of Cloak Of Altering's sound on the band's fourth album continues to thoroughly scorch the listener.

The sound is still rooted in a bizarre confluence of majestic synth-drenched black metal, skewed industrial heaviness, and fractured Planet Mu-esque electronic music, seemingly as informed by the hallucinatory throes of early Coil and the violent breakcore of Bong-Ra and Venetian Snares as it is by classic Nordic black metal. Strange contrapuntal riffs weave drunkenly amid crackling electronic glitch and eerie drones. Mournful synthscapes unfold across glacial rhythms and distorted doom-laden dirges. Blasts of foul, industrialized death metal pummel erupt alongside ominous piano figures and swells of sickening orchestral dissonance. Swarms of blackened tremolo riffage sweep across sputtering malfunctioning rhythms and strange electronic accoutrements. One notable difference from the previous album: the vocals, which here often take form here as a vile, guttural robotic croak, a sickeningly putrid android presence that is layered among the rest of the distant shrieks, anguished screams and chilling, garbled cries that all feel as if they are trying to escape the bowels of some nightmarish AI system.

And as always, Cloak Of Altering balances all of this confusional, electronically-deformed madness with some strikingly beautiful and majestically bleak melodic passages, with blasts of bombastic, heavily atmospheric synthesizer roaring across songs like "Parasitic Altering Sickness" and "Hidden Celestial Deity". An arresting, alien album that violently mutates these strands of symphonic black metal DNA into a stranger and more complex strain of digital delirium.

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released December 5, 2015

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