Band:	Beherit
Album:	Electric Doom Synthesis
Style:	Ambient, Black metal
Release date:	1995
Guest review by:	Marcus

01. Ambush
02. We Worship
03. Dead Inside
04. Beyond Vision
05. Deep Night 23rd
06. Drawing Down The Moon
07. Sense
08. Temple Ov Lykos

Following up on their 1994 release, the embarrassingly novice album H418ov21.C, Beherit returned once more with sinister ambiance; Electric Doom Synthesis. However, don't expect any amateurish synth work this time around as Beherit has pulled out all of the stops to create a dark, gritty atmospheric album.

The music on Electric Doom Synthesis is, in all honesty, nothing too exceptional. While fairly original, each song is nothing more than a few droning synth lines, hi hat abuse, bass, and the occasional sharp metal riff. But, combined, each song, and the album as a whole, can entrance the listener to a despair filled, crime ridden state of mind. If Ulver's Perdition City brings to mind the jazz fueled gangster ridden cities of the 20's and 30's, then Beherit's Electric Doom Synthesis is the musical form of Paul Verhoeven's Robocop. Rather than an intelligent, hip underworld, Electric Doom Synthesis is a bleak, PCP fueled schizophrenia. There is no modern cityscape to be found here, only the criminal-inhabited ruined infrastructure of what could perhaps once be called civilization.

Unfortunately, due to reasons stated above, if you don't let yourself get fully sucked into this album there is very little reward. Besides some original compositions, this album has little else to offer but atmosphere; think of Earth's The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull - if you don't like/accept the immersion, you will more than likely hate this album. But, if you allow yourself to be swept up into Electric Doom Synthesis, a hopeless world of crime and paranoia awaits.