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"Mesedjer of Ancient Self-Understanding" opens like when an orchestra is tuning their instruments but the sounds are artificial and the oppressive drumming makes immediately clear that we are still in the "Industrial-Metal" of its predecessor. Very powerful (electronic) drums at a volume higher than the keyboard so that the melodic line is overwhelmed by the beatings. When the drumming stops, the melody of "violin" and "piano" (in quotes as they are synthetic sounds) makes it more melodic, but some artificial noise in the background keeps the tension high. A harp sound closes the track which fades out.

"Изгнание из Реальности" (Expulsion from Reality) Is based on the same chords of the previous track but it's metal oriented and has lyrics. Does a genre called Electronic-Metal exist? I have the impression that the lyrics are in English, but the background noise over Senmuth's screaming makes it impossible to understand.

"Я покидаю Гелиополь" (I leave Heliopolis) is another metal track with lyrics. the title, together with the sleeve design reveal that this is a concept about Egypt, but I'm not able to say what's it about. From a musical point of view it's not very different from the previous track, but contains some good parts of piano and guitar specially in the second half of the track.

"Amarna's Exitium" has a slower rhythm and is more chaotic. It's a psychedelic track in the way of some 35007 works.

"Дендера. Зодиак Моей Души" (Dendera. Zodiac My Soul) is a heavy track still chaotic with a tendence to psychedelia. I can't understand if it's Russian or English, maybe Russian this time.

"Amantha" is not much different. There's more "Violins" and less chaos, but also this, is not an easy one. The piano section is very nice.

"Осознание Непригодности" (Awareness unfitness) is on the same line but a bit quiter.

"Мотивы Прошлых Воплощений" (Motives of past Reincarnations) has less background noises. A repetitive sequence of 7 notes backgrounded by harp.

The theme is reprised by "Познать Незримое Имя" Discovering Invisible's Name", the most symphonic song of the album, with some scream but with a distinctive melodic line. In my opinion one of the best album's tracks.

"Astoreth and Ra" is the one closer to my tastes. Imagine a metal version of Alan Parsons. That kind of melody and rhythm with heavy metal sounds.

"146, 64m. Восход. Всего лишь видение.." (146, 64m. Sunrise. Just a vision ..) Starts with a slow piano harping with the omnipresent background wind. At least a bit of relax. The theme is still dramatic, but less noisy and chaotic of what we have heard until now. Very nice.

" Misericordia [ir-remediabilis]" restores the metallic percussions that are a distinctive element of Senmuth's music, but a melodic line is clearly present. A metal closure to a challenging album.

It's the usual Senmuth, so if you like this music, one or another of his 80 albums doesn't make a big difference. Not that they are bad, but It's my second taste of this prolific Russian artist and it's not different from the first.

Good but non essential.

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