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KARJALAN SISSIT: Miserere Release Year: 2002 Format: CD Tracklist: 1: Pig Society 02:31 Total Length: 37:44 min General Facts: Karjalan Sissit is the project of Markus Pesonen, a guy with Finnish roots, living in Sweden. The name of the project means "the Karelian Guerillas" and it is refferring to the Finnish Sissi units during the Finnish Winter War. Markus grandfather served as a sniper in the Sissi units for 5 years. The album reviewed here is Karjalan Sissit's second album, following the self-titled debut from 2001. Miserere is recorded in Erebus Odora, The studio of Peter Petterson (Arcana, Sophia) who has also appeared on the album as a guest musician/composer. It has also got a piece contributed by Gustaf Hildebrand of Lithivm, who also have an album planned for Cold Meat Industry. Review: Well, we certainly aren't running short of Dark Neo-Classical/Industrial releases from Cold Meat Industry these days. The recent re-issuings of the old In Slaughter Natives CD's along with the ever-increasing rampages of Sophia have created a stable supply of dark, bombastic music and Karjalan Sissit is the latest addition to this roster. There seem to be a market for this type of music, in underground proportions of course. Miserere continues where the debut left us, presenting more epic pieces of Heavy Industrial entwined with Neo-Classical string sections. Displaying a steady evolution - Miserere is far more sophisticated than the debut that sometimes lacked complicity. The sound is also more unique this time even though the comparison to Sophia remain. The music actually kind of makes me think of fusion between late Sophia and Instrumental Puissance and like Sophia, it seems like Karjalan Sissit has adopted a more cynical approach lately. The music is encompassed by a variety of samples, both in Finnish and English that give character to each song. If I have yet to become tired yet of menacing rhythms, leaden string parts and stark, Industrial metal-grindings - Karjalan Sissit surely won't help me towards this goal. Instead, this music only whets my appetite and bestows upon me, a wolf's hunger, making me crave for more. A promising project that shouldn't be overlooked. Karjalan Sissit may not always be chartering unknown territories but surely, Miserere is enrichening an already established genre |
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