{"id":7450,"date":"2014-01-07T00:15:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T05:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/?p=7450"},"modified":"2014-01-28T01:04:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T06:04:34","slug":"servile-sect-glowing-10ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/?p=7450","title":{"rendered":"Servile Sect – Glowing 10"EP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Servile Sect – Glowing 10″EP<\/p>\n

King of the Monsters<\/a><\/p>\n

Servile Sect is a project who I am completely unfamiliar with as is the label. Though immediately I am met with an impressive presentation of abstract artwork and absolutely mind blowing smoky vinyl that is really impressive. The packaging here gives the impression of a space-age techno project, or maybe something quite droney and glassy.<\/p>\n

Yet what Servile Sect presents here is the polar opposite! With side A’s A Frenzy of Cubensis<\/i> we are greeted with a blast of pulsing lo-fi industrial with a very prominent black metal overtone. In fact, the more I listen to it the more I hear… are those… guitars? I can’t tell if the percussion is electronic or not but the loops are repetitive and crude. Scathing cat-like whispers join the fray and we finally have the last ingredient for what I can only describe as ‘black industrial.’<\/p>\n

Sibe B kicks in with it’s one long track entitled A Vortex Beyond Reason<\/i>. The track begins with spacey ambient noise that once again converges into tremelo picked guitar riffage. Eventually the drums kick in and a structure is formed. About three quarters of the way through everything dies down to a slow moving drone with windy tones and ethereal vocals. I really like the last part of this track – probably my favorite part of the reocrd. <\/p>\n

From Glowing I learned that black metal in noise isn’t really my cup of tea. It just feels like this would have been stronger had it been a strait-up industrial record or a strait-up black metal record. Servile Sect seems to take the weaker aspects of both styles and combine them, which just doesn’t quite do it for me. That said, this is not a bad album by any account. It is well put together in both composition and sound with a purposeful lo-fi quality that will appeal to fans of such. My guess is that fans of black metal who want something a touch more abstract and atmospheric will really enjoy Glowing though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Composition:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sounds:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Production Quality:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Concept:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Packaging:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"½\"\"☆\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Overall Rating:<\/td>\n\"★\"\"★\"\"★\"\"☆\"\"☆\" <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Servile Sect – Glowing 10″EP
\nKing of the Monsters
\nServile Sect is a project who I am completely unfamiliar with as is the label. Though immediately I am met with an impressive presentation of abstract artwork and absolutely mind blowing smoky vinyl that is really impressive. The packaging here gives the impression of a space-age techno project, or maybe something quite droney and glassy.
\nYet what Servile Sect presents here is the polar opposite! With side A’s A Frenzy of Cubensis we are greeted with a blast of pulsing lo-fi industrial with a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-webzine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7527,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7450\/revisions\/7527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/existest.org\/ee_v3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}