Spektr - Mescalyne
Judging from their sound, Spektr refer to the drug and not the Mescalyne Islands in Vanuatu. On 2006’s The Near Death Experience (which I wrote about here), this shadowy French duo rammed together dark ambient and black metal with jarring jump cuts. It was an intriguingly disruptive, Burroughsian take on an aesthetic that favors drones,...