Description

Rare original Cold Meat Industry release Atrium Carceri is a Swedish dark ambient project by Simon Heath. Atrium Carceri's albums incorporate cinematic themes that help make the perfect soundtracks to untold horror movies. Their debut album Cellblock is one creepy ambient album. The theme is a prison and it must be some kind of hellish prison out of the best kind of horror movies. The whole album feels like it has been made for a horror movie and I'm sure that if they made the movie with this as the sound track it would be one scary film. Throughout the album there are dark voices, some sound human some do not. There are creaking doors, dripping walls and piano that sounds so creepy in that it is both out of place and the most in place thing. Of course as you'd expect there are a lot of drones, all dark, all horror, but not drawn out like a lot of drone work is. The sound of a gun being cocked in Black Lace as a sense of danger from a regular source while the static rushes in Machine Elves add a sense of danger from something much more paranormal & malign. The chaos of Blue Moon subsides halfway through leading into an unexpected pulsating rhythm and descending back into chaos really sounds like this story is set in cellblock Hell. The deep throbbing bass on Depth rattles the inside of my brain. The Japanese sample in Crusted Neon is creepy in that it is so human yet so alien. The beat that comes in is so throbbing that it vibrates my living room floor. Halls of Steam is very descriptive in that it sounds like a corridor with pipes rattling and venting more than just steam. The creaking in this track sounds at times like a demonic laugh. Reborn has footsteps slowly edging forwards and what sounds like hellish cries in extreme pain. The machine like sounds in Red Stains is like some dark underground forge in some dark land and finally Inner Carceri feels like the culmination it should be, more relaxed than most of the other tracks but just as scary. The choir like voices mixed with scratching sounds like small hellish creatures make the horror's passed but only because you're dead feeling. Scary, hellish, horror, demonic, human, suffering, pain, dark, creepy, all of these are great adjectives to describe Cellblock. Cellblock is truly one of the most terrifying experiences i've had the pleasure of hearing from an album audio and a heck of a terrifying journey into the world of Atrium Carceri. The band got more rhythmic and industrial with releases after this… But in my opinion Cellblock is the ultimate release for cinematic quality dark ambient. Listen in the dark for full effect. Track listing: 1. Entrance 2. Black Lace 3. Machine Elves 4. Corridor 5. Blue Moon 6. Stir Of Thoughts 7. Depth 8. Crusted Neon 9. Halls Of Steam 10. Reborn 11. Red Stains 12. Inner Carceri