On June 25th, 2008 the fate of Endless Dismal Moan was sealed forever when sole member Chaos9 left this world by his own hands. Behind him he left three unique albums of raw mesmerizing black metal that was not quite exactly like any other band I'd heard before. Oddly enough, exactly a year later the king of pop, Michael Jackson died, but I regress.
According to the label this release had been planned long before Chaos9's suicide, and as such it shouldn't be viewed as a compilation of unreleased recordings, but as an actual fourth and final release for EDM. Interestingly the release is incredibly simple; just a slim DVD case, few liner notes, seven untitled songs and one of Chaos9's painting's as a cover artwork. Nevertheless this is some strong material from Chaos9.
Both past releases and this fourth album titled, 'Curse of Underground' finds Chaos9's music within his own little twisted dark black metal corner. Showing traits from the raw necro black metal style of Ildjarn mixed with perhaps the sound of Emperor's first album plus some influences from the industrial and Gothic scene is one way you could describe EDM's music, though I always found it to be a challenge when it would be simpler to say this is the music of nightmares come true. Sometimes unforgivably fast with industrialized programmed percussion and raw visceral guitar work, while sometimes deathly slow and atmospheric with haunting keyboards and one of the most sadistic voices ever caught on tape. EDM was truly unique and even these seven final songs here prove just that.
It's unfortunate that Chaos9 choose the path of suicide, especially when I feel he had a lot more to give and a lot more listeners to discover his work. At least he left us with four great albums of some of the darkest evilest black metal I've personally ever heard.
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