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  • Pilgrim of the Sublunary World

    CMI115

    Artist: Heid

    Label: Cold Meat Industry

    From the forested outbacks of northern Sweden, a formation known as Heid rose with the midnight sun five years ago. While the extraordinary debut album "Submitting To the Uprush Of the Unconscious" on the German label Bastet paid due respect to the Swedish tradition - a pedigree including Raison d'Etre and In Slaughter Natives - Heid instantly spoke with a unique voice, a distinct Nordic expression resonant with the majesty of their homeland: the deep forests, the bottomless lakes, the foaming rapids, and the distant howls of the last predators. The core of Heid, Tolufim and Kristian Olsson, subsequently augmented by the virtues of Peter "Parasoleil" Lindahl and Stefan Östlund, created a dark, dystopian sound, that rendered them a formidable reputation among fans and scene press alike, even though few people actually got to hear them due to the limited run of the debut CD-R. While it had only taken three weeks to complete, the follow-up "Arktogäa" took over a year in making, and US label Malignant won the race for it. This album applied a more structured, mathematical approach composition-wise, and came to incorporate novelty elements like musique concrete and ethno-tinged passages. After this release Heid fell apart but the legacy is carried on in Survival Unit and LEAK, two projects that opted to focus on different facets of what Heid comprised. A fitting epitaph is this CD retrospective on Cold Meat Industry, the label that more than anyone else has championed this kind...