war famed for the charge of the light brigade

WAR FAMED FOR THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE FULL

WAR FAMED FOR THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE FULL

If, on the other hand, you’re looking for power electronics full of abrasive distortion, gut-wrenching low frequencies and blasts of ear-shattering chaos, you’ll get an experience somehwere on the less extreme end of the spectrum. You’ll likely not be left wanting, though, for there are enough of disturbing atmospheres, ritualistic elements and haunting passages here – but broken up by blasts of distorted noise and rumbling chaos. industrial music more focused on black atmospherics, disturbing soundscapes and haunting sensations, you’re in for something on the extreme end of that. If you’re expecting death industrial, e.g. With which I am in a needlessly convoluted way trying to say that, in the end, Bastion XXIII is in terms of extremeness somewhere in the middle of the road. Cacophonous, abrasive post-industrial noise is the over-arching descriptor for this, under which the Mexican one-man entity covers a wide spectrum from power electronics to blackened death industrial.ĭepending on from which perspective you approach the album, it’s either on the harsher end of the spectrum, or alternatively not. Whilst certainly not cut from one singular cloth, at least Bastion XXIII isn’t all over the place.

Musically, though, there’s more coherence.

So, to paraphrase Forrest Gump, Bastion XXIII is like a box o’ chocolates – you never know what you gonna get. And the track names refer to occult and mystical imagery such as Satan, Lucifer, the Mexican cult of Santa Muerte, vodoun trickster deity Papa Legba, the Aztec war deity Texcatlipoca – but also to the battle of Balaclava, about which Lord Tennyson wrote his famed poem The Charge Of The Light Brigade (which, in turn, inspired Iron Maiden’s The Trooper).Īnd there’s a track called Satanas Montando Un Elefante Rosa, which Google Translate tells me means “Satan riding a pink elephant” in English. In the imagery of the digipak, there’s occult symbology – pentagrams, the sigil of Lucifer – Mexican symbolism in the form of the snake-and-eagle icon, militarism in the form of a fleet of bomber planes. Mexican Escuadron De La Muerte’s – Spanish for Squadron Of Death, unless I am entirely mistaken – latest album is a confusing mixture of themes and conflicting aesthetics.

War famed for the charge of the light brigade