The Mike Patton post-industrial music, his version of Dark Ambient. This is the ultimate soundtrack to the apocalypse and the deepest insight into Patton's mind you can expect. A song comes up for over an hour with murmurs and moans, and cries with Krächtzen but also includes vocals. Everything combined with choirs and littered sound samples. Swap Doom Metal passages as with Dark Ambient and Post Industrial experiments like Ennio Morricone's soundtrack ideas or Doom Jazz of drilling and the Club of Gore (16:10). Nurse With Wonds and Current93 rays on the masterpiece of the whole band. King Buzzo (Melvins), Dave Lombardo (Slayer) and Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle) afford their perhaps most interesting work. I would be separated from any Fantômas-disc, but this here is the indisputable masterpiece of the band. It is perhaps Patton's answer to Björk's Vespertine. A smorgasbord perpetual motion, where at Björk but everything sounds like ice, light and nature. Blades Fantômas here for a torture-those dark dungeon of the present. Delirium Cordia is cruel, menacing, metallic, cold and rusty. Whoever surrenders to this album and do without pictures of windowless dark and deserted areas might not belong. Certainly no Nebenhermusik. The structures, the ideas and tunes (because if one ever can still speak of it) usually resolve after a short time. The passages decompose and build up new without ever fade away completely. The album moves in a long process to go and always keep this cruel tension of a perpetual threatening gesture. Many referred to the album as the soundtrack to a non-existent horror film and the effect of the album come so pretty damn close, but the album does not require a film, it is the film. Patton plays with film type Sichen sound structures and sound samples for this effect, he arangiert an album in perfection to this an abysmal mood. In the dark, lonely enjoyed it's one of the best albums of the last decade.
