Demonologists are a duo from Indiana that has had music reviewed before in this zine and on this recording plays a mixture of death industrial, blackened noise and horror electronics and this is a review of their 2025 "Rakshasa" which was released as a joint effort between Aesthetic Death and Phage Tapes.
Power electronics and atmospheric sounding drones start off the album while the synths bring in more of a dark ambient style. After awhile industrial beats and harsh noises start making their presence known along with the music also getting very experimental and avant garde sounding at times and black metal screams and demonic growls are also used at times.
All of the tracks also sound very different from each other while a couple of tracks also adds in a small amount of spoken word and horror/sci-fi movie samples. The album also has its ritualistic moments along with the heavier guitars also expanding on the extreme metal influence when they are also introduced onto the recording and some songs also add in touches of goth rock and EBM.
On this recording Demonologists take black metal, harsh noise, death industrial, dark ambient, ritual, experimental, EBM and goth rock and mixes them together to create a very diverse release. The production sounds very dark while the lyrics cover occultism, horror, self destruction and death themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Demonologists are if you are a fan of death industrial, blackened noise and horror electronics, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Rat Piss Receptacle' "Wet Wings" "Samskara" and "Symbiosis Omen". 8 out of 10.
