Dark and foreboding pieces of sound are more and more intriguing to me with their tense atmospheres, and blsphm took that same sound aspect and added a physical element in the form of an anti cassette (now, I know that this is not the first anti cassette, but seeing the anti cassette made me really think about and draw me into the idea of the project); after missing out on the Yama (the aforementioned Anti- cassette), I gobbled up Horrors Of Heaven and proceeded to wait with baited breath to have my soul demolished by something that I imagined would be bleak and devastating.
Horrors Of Heaven is nothing like I imagined but everything that I hoped for from blsphm when its existence first registered with me, but rather the singularly monstrous title track that is bookended by two short noise pieces (“It Was Before” and “St. Peter” respectively) simply sounds and feels like the soundtrack to the greatest gory death scene in a horror movie slowed down and replayed over and over again while the listener (and hypothetic viewer) just cannot pull themselves away from the grisly scene playing before their eyes at one thirty secondth of normal speed (or possibly slower); and over the course of the one quarter of an hour, you might be left with an elevated heart, cold sweats, and an overwhelming desire to either rewind the part and press play again or to pull the disc out and throw it in a corner of the room waiting for something to come and get you. The anxiety inducing elements of Horrors Of Heaven feel real and palpable as the shards of noise and unspeakable terrors that seemingly lurk in the waves of noise just out of ear shot to understand exactly what is going on just within the range of your senses, hiding just behind the wall of white noise.
Maybe blsphm is not really doing anything new when viewed through the rose colored glasses of noise or harsh noise or even black noise, but this outfit certainly has its own take and sonic aesthetic on Horrors Of Heaven; and being entirely serious, there is the chance that listening to this in pitch blackness and sensory deprivation could induce the most frightening night terrors and hallucinations (not that I would know of course).
