Artist description save the world / burn it down [this is the apocalypse. you're already dead.] BABALON our eyes and our loneliness; we wear them ragged with our constant rubbing - something toils in us when we sleep, lays our bricks in the collective dream, and though we bemoan the prison we're in, we have ourselves set the bars in the concrete. this is a tiresome and sluggish dream. it is worn at the seams. the light of the new dream is nearly enough to wake us all. the many cries of babalon: we will sing down the old dream or die lying.

Music Style Rock / Metal / Electronic / Ambient

Musical Influences Coil / Tool / Nine Inch Nails / Yma Sumac / PJ Harvey / Pink Floyd

Similar Artists Tool, PJ Harvey

Artist History From New York and New Jersey and California we all have come together to form Babalon.

Group Members Scott Landes, agent139, Sarah Dudzic, Rahul Iyer

Instruments Guitars, Keyboards, Drums, Vocal Cords, Bass Guitars, Pianos, Synths, etc...

Albums Descent

Press Reviews I think the most prominent aspect is the overall quality of the production. The sound is very clean, full, and pleasantly mixed. The compositions are complex... you're really bringing together a lot of sound, but the cleanliness of the recording and excellent mixing lend enough space to each sound that it doesn't become muddled and I can hear each one speak as an individual, yet they don't give so much space that I can't hear the sounds all together as a unified sculpture. This is especially pleasing considering the strength and vibrance of many of the elements, that they don't compete for aural dominance. Sarah's singing is fucking great. Like a Siren or Goetic demon or some other agent from another realm that furiously transmits some form of gnosis into our own. Resonant, full, good control, never winded and more often than not just makes me ache. Sometimes she clips the high end little early, but I'm just struggling to find a criticism. Rich sound, carefully paced and cadenced. Overall, I'm really digging listening to this. The compositions are active and keep me interested with their startling overlays and eruptions (like the flicking film reel) that provide a complex and healthy ecology of sound. Some of the songs aren't really my bag and others sound a little forced ("Temple of the Holy" is, I think, the most notable example). However, during most of the songs, I feel like I'm being reprogrammed, "spoken" to, or otherwise advised, manipulated, seduced, and co-opted on an orgone-adaptive and pre-cognitive level... a process that I very much enjoy. I definitely agree with your assessment of it as "ritual music" in the vein of Coil or Psychick TV, though from a largely different approach.

Location Lake Forest, CA - USA

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