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BACKWORLDHoly Fire Backworld's Holy Fire (1997 HCD001) is in the apocalyptic folk tradition of Death In June, Sol Invictus and Current 93. but much of the album more particularly resembles the loungey numbers of Boyd Rice. The title track is even reminiscent of genre trailblazers, Changes, but this does not mean to say that Backworld lacks a style of its own or that the album is incoherent. Words and music are by composer and playwright, Joseph Budenholzer, who has worked in the Cinema of Transgression and provided music for Lydia Lunch's spoken-word album, Matrikamantra. To emerge from nowhere into a specialised genre with such a mature style is impressive, and although Backworld doesn't have a string of albums behind it, let's hope it has one ahead. The album is distributed by leading harbingers of doom, gloom and exaltation, World Serpent. Rik - 12 February 1998
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