NOIR NOIR | Black Curtain / Divine Swelling
NOIR NOIR | Black Curtain / Divine Swelling
Release date: October 17 2025
Catalog: SRUIN249
Genre: Black Industrial/Darkwave
Format: compilation
Versions: LP | CD | MC | Digital
Band Info
VINYL: limited edition white vinyl (100 units worldwide - direct label retail item not wholesaled or distributed) or standard black vinyl inside a matte-laminated sleeve printed black inside, insert inlay with metallic gold ink print, and download card.
DIE-HARD TEST PRESSING PACKAGE: three of only five made - available for sale here. Comes in a custom made black fold-over cover silkscreened with metallic gold ink. Hand-numbered and with all release info hand-written with metallic gold felt-tip pen, signed and stamped with the SR sigil in gold ink. Includes secret mystery silkscreened graphic inside.
CD: limited edition matte six-panel digipak CD with clear tray.
CASSETTE TAPE: limited edition cassette tape with j-card and download card.
For over fifteen years Spain's recluse visual master, composer and death fetishist Noir Noir has dredged the most forlorn depths of death industrial, dark wave, and raw black metal to uncover an auditory death ritual of unprecedented wretchedness and magnificence. The project's two crowning achievements - 2016's mini album "Black Curtain" (originally released on cassette by Fallow Field), and 2022's "Divine Swelling" (originally released by Hedonic Reversal as side one of the split cassette with Vesakh), now finally see their righteous enshrinement, remastered (courtesy of death-industrial master Grant Richardson) and released for the first time ever on vinyl and CD formats (and reissued on cassette) as due solemnization to one of underground industrial's most defiant, enigmatic, and transformative entities.
While the band's sparse but enduring output has touched upon various digressions in the realms of dark ambient, noise and power electronics, these two releases in particular are the ones which showcase the band's most coherent, focused, and visionary output, being the foremost two releases in Noir Noir's discography which most define and consecrate the project's monumental morbid triumph. By far the band's two most pervasive and straightforward releases, "Black Curtain" and "Divine Swelling" unfold a prodigious death-scarred voidscape of oppressive ritualistic rhythms, glacial sequences and tortured proclamations that condemn the listener to an all-consuming auditory punishment. Obviously influenced by, or convergently evolved from, the darkened explorations of acts like Brighter Death Now, Lurker of Chalice, Mütilation, Trepaneringsritualen, Skinny Puppy, Throbbing Gristle and Dead Can Dance, these crowning forty minutes of Noir Noir's discography represent an inestimable underground hidden jewel of perverse and grandiose nekro-industrial that are a must for any enthusiast of hermetic and cult-like auditory divergences into the depths of occultism, ritualism and sadism.
Digital download included with the purchase of analog physical copies.
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