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Planet AIDS: Apokalyptik AIDS

03/01/08  ||  Global Domination

This review was written by ex-staffer/cocksmoker Desolator.

Before you read this review, I dare you to think of the band and album names without laughing until you get AIDS. When you’re done laughing, you may proceed reading. But don’t forget to keep laughing when necessary, because laughter’s the best medicine, right? Especially when you’re in the AIDS territory.

So what medicine do we have here? This music is basically a mixture between droning industrial doom and ambient noise. Could this be something that fascinates you? That depends if you’re looking for something that is so positive that it shits flowers. If you are, then look elsewhere and not here. This is Planet AIDS, not Planet Aid. The only form of aid this band would offer for this world is syphilis, gonorrhea and the clap. So let us clap our hands and rectums for these honorable fellas.

The entirety of this album is one song that is 28 minutes in length. Care to guess what that song is? “Apokalyptik AIDS”? Well done man, you’re too fucken smart for this race, that’s for sure. But being smart won’t help you endure this. To listen to this and get through without hitting the stop button depends not on your intelligence. You need a high level for patience and tolerance for the ambient and intense side of medicines and an even higher level of patience for songs that are 28 minutes long.

If you tend to only listen to the first 30 seconds of any song, this probably isn’t for you.

This one song is basically droning noise that is played at a dreadful tone, and to me that’s a wonderful thing. It borderlines repetitive, but that’s not so bad if you dig the sound in the first place. There are many different venereal territories of sound that “Apokalyptik AIDS” gradually carries you through. Towards the end, things get more intense for sure. I could feel my rectum become empowered with blood and pus at that point. This wasn’t good for the chair though.

The vocals are sinister as hell, and the lunacy showcased in this guy’s throat reminds me of how Dave Hunt of Anaal Nathrakh struts his stuff (even though Dave Hunt is much more vicious and abrasive). I’d dare say that Planet AIDS is a slower and industrial-droning-doom counterpart to The Thrakh. The results are different, but the spirits in both bands are comparable. I’d also recommend this to anyone who likes Sunn O))).

You remember how I have a penchant for fucked up “music”, right? As long as it’s skullfucked and sodomized in a way that makes it appealing to me? I like this shit for sure. Not just because I shouldn’t like it and probably need some psychiatric help, but because I think it sounds awesome. Technically, this breed of ambient noise is simple enough for even a deaf man to listen to in his sleep.

But the ideas behind this art are far from simple. It takes a truly fucked up mind to come up with the ideas present in this album. Planet AIDS is another band that proves that even simplistic noise can still embody a sinister degree of creativity. There are all sorts of awesome tunes and sound effects blended together to make for an interesting piece of epic noise. Epic noise? How’s that even possible? Fuck if I know. Just embrace the venereal perversions in this album. Please?

Note: I could not find the names of the band members anywhere, except the name of the vocalist, whose name is Herr AIDS.

8 AIDS worshiping maniacs out of 10.

  • Information
  • Released: 2004
  • Label: GoatowaRex
  • Website: Planet AIDS Myspace
  • Band
  • Information not found.
  • Tracklist
  • 01. Apokalyptik AIDS

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