SOD#93 RIGOROUS INSTITUTION – Strange Harvest LP
SOD#93
RIGOROUS INSTITUTION
«Strange Harvest» – LP
1st pressing 520 Black (06/2023)
Screenprinted cover & Inner
Insert
AVAILABLE 12€
Vocals: SavonaroLa
Synth: TheImp
Guitar: Scully
Bass: Shite
Drums: Malönezone
Recorded in Portland Oregon at « Red Lantern Studio »s Dec 2018 & July 2019
Mixed Evan Mersky
Mastered at « Enormous Door »
Screenprinted at Ol’Dirty Hands
EPs Compilation
All tracks originally appeared on 7″ as:
« Penitent » EP (A1 to A3)
(BLACK WATER – BW-77)
« The Comming Of The Terror » EP (B1 to B3)
(WHISPERS IN DARKNESS – DARKNESS-33)
« Survival/Despotism » EP (A4, B4)
(ROACHLEG – U-07)
REVIEWS:
‘Asphyxiated holiday by the concrete beach, funeral and fun time – fever from mosquitos, floodwaters of mankind knee-deep in disease, postcard form paradise – “see the sunny side”’.
Prior to last year’s spectacularly bleak debut LP, Cainsmarsh, Rigorous Institution released three now rather hard-to-find EPs, Penitent, The Coming of the Terror, and Survival, which have now been captured on a single LP. Rigorous Institution skilfully fuse doom-laden crust with anarcho-punk to create an atmosphere of unrelenting, dark foreboding. Growled, half-spoken vocals prove the perfect foil to this post-apocalyptic soundtrack. The band lock into a discordantly powerful groove throughout, one that is enriched by atmospheric flourishes from spectral Gregorian chanting to haunting dungeon synths, and the three EP’s combine to provide a singularly coherent journey into the most dystopian of futures.