KYPCK / Tserno (digipack)

Overall it's a really nice package; pristine and near perfect doom yet not in anyway bourgeois. No capitalist excess here; huge, planet shaking riffs moving along like an apocalypse tank with haunting, reverb-drenched clean drones flowing throughout the mix; subtle use of samples and effects, and heaps of really cool drumming. It's sort of hard to pick a single song and go "here's where it's all goes right"; communist-style regulation has given each song quite an equal share- but certainly "Chernaya Dyra" and "Predatel" stand out as heroes to the people; the first with its ridiculously massive doom/industrial feel, excellent, haunting clean parts and twisting, unpredictable song structure, the latter for its wealth of huge riffs. The whole thing has got a rather enigmatic atmosphere too it- very secretive and coldwarish, vague evocations of scientists doing hidden experiments in secret laboratories, images of troops marching past, large rockets being assembled. Basically get what North Korea have been up to in the past few years, make the footage black and white and lower the image and sound quality, and you've pretty much got it.