Silent Carrion – Andras (2012)

Usually one-man bands are a big hit or miss, they can either be awesome because the person behind them is a musical virtuoso and can’t stand playing around with other retards, or they are just terrible because they are the public inner ramblings of a child that could not play music. Silent Carrion falls somewhat in the middle of these two categories. “Andras” delivers eight tracks of weird Ambient / Drone / Noise music that is interestingly creative and disturbing, but very often poorly executed (in our opinion).

The opener “Mountain (An Invocation)” creates a very eerie and weird atmosphere that if it wasn’t for the bad sounding programmed drums, it would be an excellent song. With “Mist” things get a bit more intense and the creepy factor is still in play with some more ‘intense’ drums. We often wonder how can somebody thing this programmed drums sound good when they are not well polished. Take for example the legendary Diabolos Rising, their programmed drums sounded amazing.

More in the Drone territory, “Fear Spreads Like a Plague” is an actually enjoyable song since there are not too many drums in it except for a few loops. The atmosphere is very somber and quite enjoyable indeed; the same goes for “The Ground Seems Hollow”. The intense “Echoes from a Deep Chasm” has a more maquiavelic feeling to it, making it our favorite track of this release. “Copper” would have been good due to the use of more guitars and a somewhat Black Metal vibe to it, but the programming kills it once more.

The short “Suprematism (sickness)” is a very unnerving song that reminds us why we don’t really like Drone/Ambient music usually, thus we believe it might be of the liking of people that enjoy the genre. The martial “Krieg” is a nice closer to this decent release that could have been considerably better. If you like this type of experimental Drone/Ambient/Noise releases, this is somewhat decent in our opinion. However, the drum programming and how it sounds really leaves a lot to be desired and hopefully improved in the future.

Release: 2012

Country: Italy