Small No Visible Scars label have thrown out some good releases now and then and I've been pleasantly surprised with every one of those I've had a chance to hear. After listening to this tape it seems that it's time to quit being surprised and take the quality of the releases as a fact. No Visible Scars would surprise me if it'd release something awful (I hope that won't happen).
I've heard just the title of this project until this cassette. Musik for Dekomposition is the tenth release of Subklinik in 15 years of activity. Initiator of this project, Chad Davis, is more or less active for 20 years not only in industrial, but also in black metal scene. All in all I count 16 projects that were or are still active. Truth to say I was a little sceptical about this release until the very first seconds of it took me by storm. In latter years I had an impression that if the release is described as inspired by/dedicated to Marco Corbelli (this does not go for this album. Between the inspirations of this album are: Reality. Death, darkness, isolationism, sickness, perversion, cold. Atrax Morgue, MB, Korpses Katatonik, Mauthausen Orchestra, Brighter Death Now etc.), most of the time you get some cheap waste. At the moment I remember at least 3 cases when under "dedicated to/inspired by Atrax Morgue" I found weak and non qualitative, boring minimalistic tones of cheap digital synths where their puniness, lack of motivation, idea and atmosphere or simply ignorance of the creator was tried to be covered with a famous name. Atrax Morgue was torment and lust for death and you could feel that with every cell in your body in some of his releases while the horde of his so called "followers" has nothing to offer, but a rare decent record. In the case of this album, I think that it's not a coincidence that the very first release of Subklinik was released via Slaughter productions. Since the very first seconds of the record the listener swallows a dark, devouring from inside worm and you can feel how it's eating you. Filthy sound of modular synth in this cassette sounds as it would've been recorded a couple decades ago. The first three tracks in the album are touched by some ritualistic mood when fragments of distant voice under effects sounds above disillusioned tones of synth. :Dekomposition I: is one of the most dismal tracks in this tape. Fragments of voice drowned in slow synth pulsations and periodical short bursts of noisier tone. Uneasy atmosphere drawing you in and drowning in poisonous juices of this album. The second track is different - almost rhythmical, not that oppressive as the first one, but it does not let go the mood of weird analog ritual. There are less vocals or at least it seems that way in the third one. This track once more overlies you with its full power and plunge you into stuffy modular minimalism. Vortices of absolute monotony, bleakness and minimalism goes in the next two tracks. It seems as it would be the other part of the album. A little different, a little lighter in places, but in places beating you with slow lines of sounds. It seems that they are coming from somewhere There, from darkness of the past, bringing fragments of death and leisurely implanting them under your skin so that you could feel the end of yourself everywhere you go. :Final Dekomposition: finishes this tape. Very uncomfortable atmosphere is created in those despairing loops and modest development. All this tape, that plays for half an hour is one long leaden nightmare. You don't want it to end. You're afraid of something Unknown, Unseen, Untouchable. But most of all you wish to wait and listen to these sounds more and more even if understanding that the acquaintance with Unknown might be disastrous. Or maybe it's better than reality you know? I liked this one. Forceful and strong work of Subklinik.

Format: CS
Released: 2010
Label: No Visible Scars
Edition: 100