∆AIMON – s/t
	Label:	Artoffact Records
	Release:	December 10 2013
	By:	Dajana
	Rating:	7/10
	Time:	53:02
	Style:	Witch House
	URL:	∆aimon
From sunny California a project hails that could not be any darker, bleaker, mystical and occult: ∆AIMON. It is not only the band’s name; also the album is full of cryptic hieroglyphs, pictograms and Unicode characters preserving an air of mystery around the band. Musically ∆AIMON range in the quite new (sub) genre called Witch House, a stylistic blend of dark ambient soundscapes, industrial, drone and noise experimentation, with a hint towards House and Dub Step. Lyrically as well as visually the duo, less surprising, reflect on occult, witchcraft, shamanism and horror-inspired themes. The voice and singing of Nancy Lutz is hauntingly beautiful, eerie, with ghost-girl whispers here and there, and perfectly suiting the sound and atmosphere of the album. But over the entire album length it is too uniform and less varied. Her counterpart, Brant Showers, has a more snarling voice and, compared with his singing on the previous EP, he fails on the debut. When Brant Showers tries to sing clean he sounds terrible (as in Seraphim, Dissolvte, Anima and Amen). On the other hand, when his voice gets a bit distorted or Brant does spoken words as in Low, his voice works fine. Sound cosmos and atmosphere make ∆aimon a masterpiece. This debut is gloomy, eerie, bleak and oppressive, but compared with already mentioned EP Flatliner (out in 2012) ∆aimon falls short. The debut is a bit more experimental (which is ok), slower and more monotonous what inevitably leads to lengthiness. I really miss tracks in the style of Black Cross on here. Amen and Exu Rei are tracks from the very first EP Amen, completely reworked and re-recorded. At the end of the day the debut of ∆AIMON did not live up to expectations. It is not bad, but leaves a lot of room for more. But I definitely fell for this genre and will keep at least one mystical eye on it and its bands ;)