BRAKEL - Wranger Wanen LP

No identities, no fun, no past, no future: Brakel assault the unsuspecting with Wranger Wanen.

The first full-length recording of Belgium's Brakel, Wranger Wanen comprises nine songs across a time-evaporating / stretching 27 minutes. Signposts among raw black metal's elite exist here - be it Black Cilice, Candelabrum, Múspellzheimr, or those orbiting the Signal Rex-endorsed Clandestine Circle of Aldebaran - but beneath the alternately shocking / shimmering soundfield bubble torched debris of power electronics. Hateful and ghoulish in equal measure but utterly alien in effect, the ghostly surge of in-the-red decibels across Wranger Wanen get wrangled into obscene shapes; with all those indeterminate pulses underneath, sometimes Brakel's sound approaches the mechanistic...if the Industrial Revolution was visualized in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, such is the expressionist horror on display.