HROSSHARSGRANI

"Pro Liberate Dimicandum Est"

Steinklang Industries - 2009

CD / CD + CDr - 150 copies

This project with a rather difficult name was born from Alex Wieser, mastermind of the appreciated Austrian entity Uruk-Hai, which moves between dark ambient and pagan folk rides. Hrossharsgrani is, on the contrary, more akin to his other side-projects B-Maschina and Bonemachine, all devoted to a martial industrial rich of epic and gloomy tones. "Pro Libertate Dimicandum Est" feeds on film samples, noise broadsides, mechanical and monotonous rhythms, ghostly guitar chords here and here, and, actually, not much else.

Indeed, there's a terrible repetitiveness haunting the ten tracks of this CD, loosing a little bit only in the slow battle gait with imperious vocals of "None Of You", and in the grey industrial scenery of "The Glory Of All Dead". As for the rest, unfortunately, boredom ends up with overcoming, especially in the long and horrendously logorrheic jumble of "The Victory", where, after the sixth time that a sampled voice repeats "for the victory!", you feel seriously like interrupting the listening. Martial industrial can turn into a pitiless double-edged weapon, especially if relying upon machines only. Just press the skip button without too many regrets.

- Simon V.

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/hrossharsgrani