SATORI

"Contemptus Mundi"

Cold Spring - 2008

CD

Together with the CD reissue of their Japanese "Kanashibari" album, Satori also present this "Contemptus Mundi", containing two brand-new long tracks. The ancient Latin title stands for "contempt of the world" and refers to the speech you can hear in the early minutes of track one, a declamation against the weakness of the modern world pronounced by Magus Peter H. Gilmore, High Priest of the Church Of Satan. The rest of the CD is made of rather flat and scarcely evolving dark ambient, which will see you turn up the volume quite often in order to make it sound a bit more interesting.

Let's say then that, even if the concept is captivating, the result here achieved is modest. There's lot of far superior dark ambient around, both in the past and present. As for Satori, try "Kanashibari", released simultaneously and better showing their true potential.

- Simon V.

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

Related articles:

SATORI - Kanashibari - Cold Spring CD