Schrei X

by Diamanda Gal谩s

Schrei X cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 23 September 1996
  • Label: Mute
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 53:15
  • Community rating: 3.02/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Captured primarily from live vocal performances and heavily processed in the studio, this terrifying suite relies entirely on the artist's astonishing multi-octave range without any instrumental backing. Exploring themes of physical isolation, torture, and psychological collapse, her voice is manipulated into guttural screeches and suffocating choral clusters. It is an uncompromising exercise in pure, confrontational acoustic horror.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, scary, vulgar, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. Do Room - Live (1:11)
  2. I - I Am - Dreams - Live (5:01)
  3. M Dis I - Live (1:13)
  4. Opm - Live (1:25)
  5. Abasement - Live (3:11)
  6. Headbox - Live (2:16)
  7. Cunt - Live (0:49)
  8. Hepar - Live (0:55)
  9. Coitum - Live (1:14)
  10. Vein - Live (3:56)
  11. M Dis II - Live (0:56)
  12. Smell - Live (2:19)
  13. Hee Shock Die - Live (1:59)
  14. Do Room (2:17)
  15. I I (1:59)
  16. M Dis I (1:36)
  17. Opm (1:48)
  18. Headbox (1:56)
  19. Cunt (1:43)
  20. Hepar (1:41)
  21. Vein (1:54)
  22. M Dis II (2:01)
  23. Smell (2:17)
  24. Hee Shock Die (7:26)

Credits

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