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Rating: "Nature Unveiled", the dark masterpiece by Current 93, emerges as a hellish mosaic of New Testament horrors, a sonic underground that roars like the impenetrable lament of ancient demons, summoned from a hidden recess. David Tibet, the shadow behind this sonic ritual, stands as a devotee of the unknown, a Gnostic who worships the sects exiled by the Church in the primordial centuries of the Christian era.
This cursed symphony could be the perfect cry for a Lovecraftian tale, an epic of terror that unfolds through distorted Gregorian chants, laments from unfathomable abysses, while discordant industrial noises hammer like the heartbeat of a demonic heart. Infernal growls and Tibet's shrill voice proclaim the death of "Maldoror", a dark omen drawn from the abyss of Lautréamont's surrealism.
The album, divided into two tracks like a descent into hell, where tape manipulation stretches voices into moans that echo like desperate invocations. They sound like the voices of slaves about to be whipped by the executioner of the Inquisition.
Christian themes recur obsessively, with the title of the first side evoking Golgotha, the place of Christ's crucifixion. "Nature Unveiled", although far from Current 93's later folk works, spreads unsettling atmospheres, immersing the listener in a reality where the Apocalypse is a tangible presence, ready to unleash hell among the living. David Tibet seems like the Grand Inquisitor with his sharp screams that literally seem a hallucinatory nightmare. One glance at the inner cover is enough to chill the blood in your veins.
After the album's climax, the voices dissolve, giving way to distant wails and increasingly urgent sirens, omens of an inescapable fate. Then, suddenly, everything calms, and the vision of the end of days completes in the dark silence of a disturbing eternity, where the shadows of the unknown envelop the world in an eternal night.
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By Breus
The industrial sound borne of Throbbing Gristle was marrying with the dark sensationalism of neo-gothic, producing an incredible magma of 'musical' evocations that resembled more of a demonic ritual than a decadent rock ballad.
David Tibet’s voice - guru and founder of the project Current 93 - uneasily sneers in the long excursus of 'Ach Golgotha (Maldoror Is Dead)', mocking all orthodoxy and dragging the listener into a dark dungeon populated by 18th-century ectoplasms and frescoed like a satanic basilica.
By Cervovolante
The music is dark and para-religious, taking us into infernal realms.
Nature Unveiled shines with a dark and esoteric aura that has not yet waned.
