Twice Dark’s “Necromantic” isn’t just goth-electro industrial; it’s an excavation. Josh Kreuzman, the spectral architect behind this project, doesn’t simply offer a song. He hands you a shovel and invites you to dig.
What do you unearth? Loss, unmistakably. Grief hangs in the air like mist on a cemetery. This single wrestles with mortality, the heavy lid of finality slamming shut, echoing against the cold stone. It makes you think about Pompei, about the moments frozen in time by sheer destructive force.
The haunting quality here is palpable. It’s the chilling notion of echoes continuing, a loop of pain refusing to be silenced. A figure, anchored to a grave, eyes hollow with unfulfilled desires, pulls you – metaphorically, hopefully – under. Are we all, in some way, tethered to something we can’t quite release? A broken promise, a faded dream?
The synth lines slither and scrape like coffin lids being dragged across the floor, surprisingly danceable still! A broken heart beats with programmed rhythm. Abandonment and isolation aren’t presented as abstract concepts; they’re tangible, heavy coats you’re forced to wear on a humid day.
Then there’s that contrasting push and pull between the cold and the warmth. A ghostly touch craving something it can never grasp again. Is it solace? Connection? Relevance? It is futile, yet eternally sought, in what has already been expunged. This recalls those dreams of reaching for something in the sky only for the item to dissolve into mere memory.
The production feels claustrophobic. Which is perfect. Kreuzman has sculpted something undeniably dark but also unexpectedly engaging, the aural equivalent of stumbling across an abandoned building and feeling drawn to explore. A scary haunted place.
“Necromantic” lingers. It’s the taste of iron after biting your tongue, the echo of a slammed door in an empty house, the uncomfortable reality of mortality reflected in the glass. This is not background music; this is an immersion into sound, a requiem for the living and the lost. It questions if one truly appreciates their life. And more poignantly, can that appreciation outlast the grief?
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