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Dødsmaskin – Isolat (2025)

A new album of Dødsmaskin popped up in my Spotify feed. It is so new, that it is not yet listed on Discogs. Also I cannot find any information about the label “Death Machine Industries”. it seems that this is a self-released Bandcamp release of the band. There are plans for a limited physical release.

As you probably know by now Dødsmaskin has a varied sound. “Isolat” opens with a few ambient tones, but soon goes over in a more pomp and atmospheric sound. The duo did not do away with their industrial sound though and there are also some noisy parts to the album. Perhaps new are obviously guitar based elements (both in atmospheric and in more industrial parts). The most notable element this time are perhaps the atmosphere parts that give way to more drum-type industrial. Also there are two excellent noise tracks.

Perhaps too much a mix of different approaches for my liking, but certainly not your average industrial album.

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Dødsmaskin – Herremoral | Slavemoral (2022)

I noticed an announcement of a new Dødsmaskin and just as before I thought ‘right, that’s that project that made a very descent ambient noise album’. Well, no ‘ambient noise’ on the new album!

The new album starts with a very rough piece of noisy industrial. Loud blasts, metal clanging, distorted sounds. The second track leans a bit towards death industrial and then we go to some sort of technoish rhythmic noise that ends ‘ambiently’. More tough industrial, ambient that goes over into ‘wall of noise’, downright noise, this is mostly pretty damn good too!

Industrial noise lovers beware, you may have to check out the latest Dødsmaskin.

Links: Dødsmaskin, Ant-Zen, Malignant

Dødsmaskin – Verdenssmerte (2020)

I have known Dødsmaskin for a while, but apparently I have never reviewed an album of theirs. I remember liking the first album that I heard in a style that I call “ambient noise” with here and there some dark ambient.

Later albums that I heard seemed to focus more on the dark ambient, with only here and there a noisy tone. Also more and more atmospheric elements seemed to find its way to the music. Thus came that I only liked some of the tracks.

After releases on Malignant and Cyclic Law, the project has been picked up by Tesco. “Verdenssmerte” opens with a soft piano and slowly but surely the track goes over into a noisy texture.

The second track sounds a lot more interesting to me. A somewhat industrial dark ambient soundscape gets some noisy tones after a while. This track is nicely dark and in the style of Dødsmaskin that I like best, especially when things get even more noisy.

After a more experimental ambient track comes another nice noisy industrial track, an alright industrial track and an ambient closing track.

Indeed, some tracks I like, most do little to me.

Links: Dødsmaskin, Tesco