Temple of Tiermes is a duo from Finland, presenting here their first (I think) full length album on a thick vinyl 12" released by Kaos Kontrol and coming with a booklet containing several black and white photos made to illustrate these three tracks. Temple of Tiermes' music is an arhythmic, dark and noisy version of industrial. This is very soundscape-based, but is too heavy to be ambient. Distorted "wind" blows over several waves of drones and soft noise, as very distant beats can be heard. The result is an interesting atmosphere of death industrial, more or less typical from such a music coming from Scandinavia (everybody will think of some of the early Cold Meat Industry releases here). The three tracks are rather similar ("Cauac", the only track on the first side, is a bit more rhythmic, though) but I've been well impressed by the whole thing, that sounds coherent and well done. Not totally electronic minded, "Psychotropic Substances" seem to have been played with other, accoustic, sources, and has some nice sonorities. The main problem of this LP might be the lack of change in the tracks themselves, but the range of sonorities used is interesting, and you don't get bored by Temple of Tiermes. Overall, and even though the production and recording might not be perfect, here is an good surprise that should please fans of dark industrial soundscape, Scandinavian style."
(Recycle Your Ears)