Name: 6
Brand: Pharaoh Overlord

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-LAUNCH-216

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Colour

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-12-11

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5055869572729

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Pharaoh Overlord

Genre US

Metal

Label US

Rocket Recordings

The band's current duo of Tomi Leppanen and Jussi Lehtisalo first channeled their love of krautrock-damaged<br>monomania into synth-driven motorik soundscapes on 2019's 5, yet this new exploration is a step way beyond, into a chilly and captivating electronic panorama. Beholden to the melodies and textures of Kraftwerk yet also the cinematic austerity of EBM and the effervescent pulse of classic Italo-pop, it's further abetted by fierce and corrosive vocals from longtime collaborator and Sumac/Isis/Old Man Gloom seer Aaron Turner, which stand atop these futuristic serenades not unlike the fevered delivery of a dystopian hellfire preacher. The result, richly coherent yet startling even for the unpredictable world of this band, arrives like a series of otherworldly epiphanies. The opening "Path Eternal" sets its stall out in style, marrying Moroder and Mayhem with a hint of the apocalypse manifesto of Skinny Puppy lurking in the middle distance. "Arms Of The Butcher" is a strident anthem for a modern pandemonium, "Blue Light Hum" meanwhile comes on like a robotic Neu! summoning end-credits euphoria. And most audaciously of all, "Without Song All Will Perish" takes the urbane yet decadent sound of Voulez-Vous-era ABBA and reinvents it as a venomous disco Gotterdamerrung. True to form, like a brightly underlit disco dancefloor flashing out a warning of danger, the alchemical force of 6 is equal parts hedonistic rapture and dark revelation. Let him who have understanding reckon the number of the beat, for it is a human number. Its number is 6. 

Music US