The Industrial Twilight: Mandragora's Chain

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Mandragora's Chain - "Retribution" [2012]

Artist: Mandragora's Chain

Title: Retribution

Genre: Noise, Dark Ambient, Industrial

Country: Ukraine

Release date: 2012

Track List:

Prologue: Happy?
Do not look back
Touch
Retribution
Love
Interlude Trust No One
Kill
United in slavery
Information War
New world order
Obey
Destroy your nation
Epilogue No More

Another obscure noise project from Kiev, started in 2008 initially as a pure "anarchist power electronics/noise" project, but later incorporated elements from various other post-industrial genres. The guy behind the project was active in the electronic music scene at least until 2013 under the moniker of Sitreus Ramirez, but in the early 2010s he became much more interested in deep techno, IDM and downtempo, and decided to focus on his solo works and his IDM band Sound Wave Pressure. However, I find his early noise/industrial works much more interesting in terms of both sound and message:

<a href="https://someonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/retribution">Retribution by Mandragora's Chain</a>

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