The Sublime

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AlbumFeb 08 / 20199 songs, 36m 29s88%
Industrial Metal Post-Metal
Noteable

YERÛŠELEM is the newest entity created by Vindsval and W.D.Feld (BLUT AUS NORD). First utterance ‘The Sublime’ is a world of interlocking miniatures, music in which a familiar centre has collapsed and been restructured into new forms, where ghosts are created by absence. The project’s name speaks of an incalculable vastness of contemplation within: YERÛŠELEM’s sound is a congruent melding of powerfully bass-heavy Godfleshian clank and grind, the sacred ur-texts of Coil and Autechre, stark neo-gothic guitar leads with intimations of fusion, the freshness-into-fetid-air experimentation of back-end ‘90s Mayhem and Thorns, post-punk urbanity, psychedelic dreamgaze, subterranean industrial pulses and the crunching rhythmic crispness of modernist electronica. Eternal searching has culminated in a new vocal and lyrical clarity which moves further towards communication than anything previously recorded by the pair. Is this spiritualism or lack thereof? Prayer or anti-prayer? Self-renewal from without or within? With ‘The Sublime’ YERÛŠELEM have created a realm unreal and all too real, the definition truly undefined - the source as unfathomable as it ever was.

7 / 10

Listen as members of Blut Aus Nord indulge their industrial metal and dystopian soundscape fantasies.

2.5 / 5

A review of The Sublime by Yerûšelem, available February 8th worldwide by Debemur Morti Productions.