Estoric Star Chamber CS13

Melbourne has always had a talent for conjuring something genuinely unsettling out of modest means, and Estoric's Star Chamber CS13 sits squarely in that tradition. This is not background music. This is the kind of record that makes you check the lock on the door.

Star Chamber occupies the murky overlap between industrial, dark ambient, and post-industrial noise, the sort of thing that would have lived on a hand-dubbed tape passed around the Melbourne underground in the nineties before anyone had a name for it. CS13 suggests this is a limited cassette release, which means if you're sleeping on it you're going to be paying triple for it on Discogs inside a year. Australian dark ambient and industrial has a small but deeply serious community, and releases like this are exactly why.

Limited cassette format. Priced at $69.95, reflecting scarcity and collectibility. Australian release.

Fans of: Lustmord, SPK, Nurse With Wound, early Sopor Aeternus, Melbourne industrial underground.