GRAND MAL X Darkness CD Digipack 2018 ant-zen

Darkness

CD Digipack

Grand Mal X is an act from Solna/Sweden and was well-established in the underground cassette scene (f.e. on trepaneringsritualen’s beläten label) before releasing its first 12”. With 'Darkness', created after a long period of deeper research, their first full length album sees the light of day, an album whose concept is based on the seemingly negative meaning of the term 'Darkness' itself. Drawing from a long and wide palette of influences ranging from dynamic meditation and painters like Böcklin to sonic artists like Suicide, Coil, Rune Lindblad and even Bathory and Afrika Bambaata, GMX is an act that refuses to be pigeon-holed soundwise. Its music touches the cross-roads of minimal electro-punk, dark synth pop and classic industrial. It‘s moody and gloomy, yet also spiritual and empowering. A sound that is at once danceable and disturbing, abstract and catchy. Deep pulse drum machine patterns and cracking bass sequences build a solid foundation for carefully inserted electronic treatments and expressive vocals adding a sinister human element to the synthetic audio makeup. A positively dark, unmistakably Swedish release with a deep flow, suitable for home and club environments!