DELÌRIVM CÒRDIA

What can I say about this monster of an album. This is just so experimental, so avantgarde, so un-music that it's bound to knock you right out of your chair. I was totally blown away when I heard this completely for the first time.

The album consists of one 74-minute suite; it actually has 55 minutes of the "music", and 20 minutes of needle scratch noise. I really have no clue what that last 20 minute is supposed to be about, but it makes no sense, just the repeated needle noise loop for 20 minutes. It's totally unnecessary, and it's the only reason I can't give this album the 5 stars it would otherwise deserve. We all know Patton is a lunatic, but this goes beyond art.

Anyway, let's return to the music itself. It's a concept album: about being awake in surgery, and not being able to do anything, feeling the needles cut you, feeling the doctors dig out your organs one by one. It's about the horror, fear, pain, agony; everything one goes through during that experience. And it really succeeds, Delirium Cordia really is a creepy album. I mean really creepy. There's not a lot of metal here, but all the more moaning, screaming and squeaking by Patton, dark keyboard sounds, and wonderfully spinethrilling bass lines. AND of course surgery sounds, really creepy stuff.

This one is best to listen to with headphones to provide the right atmosphere, really imagine yourself in the surgery room and hear all the strange and terrifying sounds, there really is something happening all the time, although it might not seem like it all the time. This music it at times even ambient. It could take a few, or a few dozen listens to realize how ingenius music this really is. SO, put on your headphones and feel the knifes piercing your skin while you can do absolutely nothing about it! I can easily admit I got frightened several times during this album, so I think Patton and the other lads have really succeeded here, hence the 4 stars. Great stuff!