O Saala Sakraal are a collective from the Netherlands that has had music reviewed before in this zine and on this recording plays a mixture of drone and electroacoustic music and this is a review of their 2021 ep "Heven" which will be released in July by Cyclic Law.
Atmospheric sounding drones start off the ep along with some programmed beats and ambient style soundscapes a few seconds later. Tribal style percussion is also utilized quite a bit throughout the recording along with some screams also being utilized briefly and the music also has its experimental moments.
When melodic chants are utilized they also give the music more of a ritualistic feeling while each track also sounds very different from each other. Whispers and spoken word parts can also be heard briefly along with most of the tracks also being very long and epic in length and clean vocals are added on the closing song.
On this recording O Saala Sakraal plays a musical style that takes drone,electroacoustic, dark ambient and ritual and mixes them together to create a sound of their own. The production sounds very dark while the song themes focus on metaphysics, perversion, denial and nihilism and religion.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from O Saala Sakraal and if you are a fan of of drone, electroacoustic, dark ambient and ritual and you should check out this ep. RECOMMENDED TRACK "Heven: Etherwende". 8 out of 10.
https://cycliclaw.bandcamp.com/album/heven
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