Various Artists: The Pact Flying in the Face
- Death in June - The Only Good Neighbor
- Strength Through Joy - Dominions Behind the Sun
- Blood Axis - Eternal Soul
- Schwartze Orden - Heralds of the Dawn
- Fire & Ice - Seeker's Prayer
- Lux & Tenebris - Purity
- Arrkon - Osmosis
- Not Breathing - Oviates of the World, Unite and Take Over
- Eric Owens - Toss the Feathers
- Dogstar Communications - Innoukouzou: A Message from Nommo
- C.O.T.A. - Song for the Fifth World
- Life Garden - Pushkara
- Instagon - Thee Arrow
- Necromantia - Spiritforms of the Psychomancer
For the most part, "The Pact Flying in the Face", is lackluster collection of
gothic folk bands from American and Europe. However, the compilation also
contains a handful of experimental audio projects like Not Breathing, Life
Garden & Instagon to keep it from being totally boring. Not Breathing
contributes one of their older tracks, 'Oviates of the World, Unite and Take
Over', which is a collection of atmospheric ambient whorls and hallucination
induced percussion. Dogstar Communications donates the sub-bass heavy noise
miasma, 'Innoukouzou: A Message from Nommo', that you feel more than hear. Life
Garden lulls you with 'Pushkara', before it explodes into a harsh percussive
arrangement. All in all, a very decent compilation, with the first half
catering to the European folk audience, which I am none too found of, and the
later half focusing on the more eclectic experimental projects of the American
southwest.
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