Working as Prurient, sound artist Dominick Fernow amassed an immense discography of bleak experiments in harsh noise and punishing power electronics.
Vatican Shadow is the name he goes under when making minimal techno, and the deep, relentless beats and murky bass throb of Remember Your Black Day are every bit as menacing and pained as his more formless noise material.
While almost entirely instrumental, save some incoherent vocal samples, the eight repetitive and darkly hypnotic tracks here seem to be focused (in their titles at least) on themes of terrorism and war in the Middle East.
Industrial-flavored tracks with titles like "Tonight Saddam Walks Amidst Ruins" and "Not the Son of Desert Storm, But the Child of Chechnya" create grim, queasy landscapes and offer the listener no hope for resolution of any kind from their thick uneasiness.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tonight Saddam Walks Amidst Ruins | Vatican Shadow | Play | 04:32 | 10 MB | 27 MB |
| 2 | Muscle Hijacker Tribal Affiliation | Vatican Shadow | Play | 05:31 | 12 MB | 25 MB |
| 3 | Contractor Corpses Hung Over the Euphrates River | Vatican Shadow | Play | 05:41 | 13 MB | 38 MB |
| 4 | Enter Paradise | Vatican Shadow | Play | 05:53 | 13 MB | 37 MB |
| 5 | Remember Your Black Day | Vatican Shadow | Play | 08:12 | 18 MB | 52 MB |
| 6 | Not the Son of Desert Storm, But the Child of Chechnya | Vatican Shadow | Play | 04:12 | 9 MB | 29 MB |
| 7 | Jet Fumes Above the Reflecting Pool | Vatican Shadow | Play | 05:28 | 12 MB | 33 MB |
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| Artist | Job | |
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| 1 | Vatican Shadow | Primary Artist |
Vatican Shadow
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |