John Balistreri and his project Slogun are perfectly known to those
interested in
industrial subculture. This is the most famous American
power electronics project, fully embedding the tendency of American
brutal sound and ideology. Aesthetics of serial killers, mass murders,
and crimes have been used to finely illustrate uncompromising tracks
full of hatred against society, the sound of which had provoked the
terrible thoughts of mass destruction. Previous tracks of Slogun used to
carry the extraordinary straightness which is specific to almost all
American artists of PE. However, his last two albums dramatically
diverge from previous Slogun releases. The project's sound and ideology
were visibly transformed by Balistreri, and they became closer to the
European conception of the "PE sound". The straight, uncompromising
brutality of Slogun trespassed into a gloomy atmospheric landscape, and
the ideology of their last words clearly reveals the cause, this
metamorphosis of a lonely, hopeless, trapped human being to
uncompromising collector of human lives. These are authentic thoughts
and memories concentrated to the cause of trauma rather than to brutal
crimes. The last albums of Slogun may be seen as the deep-dark
confessions of a person whispering to us his reasons of fatal breakdown,
ending up in human hunting. The monumental Slogun
Visit Revisit box
will unlock to the audience both the primal and newly transformed sound
of Slogun. The first CD, the album
Visit, is absolutely fresh and
contains never-before published pieces delivering the converted,
atmospheric side of Slogun. The second disc,
Revisit, compiles rare
tracks previously published in limited editions for collectors, and
represents the initial straight brutality the project is known for. The
two CDs are wrapped in
Autarkeia labeled slip case box including cover
and informative 20 page booklet.
Album's "Visit" tracks:
1. faded, almost forgoten
2. all left behind
3. 1000 lives chewed up
4. bound to the past
5. once everything
6. just as dead in life
7. forced regret
8. lost with everything else
9. kept faces avoided
10. abandoned, discarded
11. chapters on top of chapters
12. at the expense of them
Album's "Revisit" tracks:
1. bury yourself
2. gutter lane
3. close by
4 wasted
5. wanted
6. missed
7. random
8. pocketThe box contains of 2 golden metalisation discs on digipack, 2 special
protectors including box itself for discs and digi and 20 pages booklet.
Lim. E 300.