Black Curtain / Divine Swelling, by NOIR NOIR

Black Curtain / Divine Swelling

by NOIR NOIR

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	1.	Gehenna 03:30
	2.	Black Sun 03:17
	3.	Sublimation 03:27
	4.	Yamāntaka 01:38
	5.	Snake Eye 04:38
	6.	Holodomor 00:58
	7.	Red Seance 03:00
	8.	The Mirror of Thought 02:23
	9.	Threats 06:43
	10.	Behind the Sun 02:08
	11.	Gazed Upon Medusa 02:55
	12.	Mirrorsphere 02:47
	13.	Cycles 03:23

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For almost twenty years Spain's recluse visual master, composer and death fetishist Noir Noir has dredged the most forlorn depths of death industrial, dark wave, and raw black metal to uncover an auditory death ritual of unprecedented wretchedness and magnificence. The project's two crowning achievements, 2016's mini album "Black Curtain" (originally released on cassette by Fallow Field), and 2022's "Divine Swelling" (originally released by Hedonic Reversal as side one of the split cassette with Vesakh), now finally see their righteous enshrinement, remastered (courtesy of death-industrial master Grant Richardson) and released for the first time ever on vinyl and CD formats as due solemnization for one of underground industrial's most defiant, enigmatic, and transformative entities.

While the band's sparse but enduring output has touched upon various digressions in the realms of dark ambient, noise and power electronics, these two releases in particular are the ones which showcase the band's most coherent, focused, and visionary output, being the foremost two releases in Noir Noir's discography which most define and consecrate the project's monumental morbid triumph. By far the band's two most pervasive and straightforward releases, "Black Curtain" and "Divine Swelling" unfold a prodigious death-scarred voidscape of oppressive ritualistic rhythms, glacial sequences and tortured proclamations that condemn the listener to an all-consuming auditory punishment. Obviously influenced by, or convergently evolved from, the darkened explorations of acts like Brighter Death Now, Lurker of Chalice, Mütilation, Trepaneringsritualen, Skinny Puppy, Throbbing Gristle and Dead Can Dance, these crowning forty minutes of Noir Noir's discography represent an inestimable underground hidden jewel of perverse and grandiose necro-indutrial that are a must for any enthusiast of hermetic and cult-like auditory digressions into the depths of occultism, ritualism and sadism.

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released October 17, 2025

All music written and recorded by Noir Noir.
All artwork by Noir Noir
Design and layout by MA

Tracks 1-7: "Black Curtain", originally released on cassette in 2016 by Fallow Field

Tracks 8-13: "Divine Swelling", originally originally released by Hedonic Reversal in 2022 as side one of the split cassette with Vesakh

All tracks remastered in 2025 for Sentient Ruin by Grant Richardson

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