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Veinke is the solo project of 18 year old Daniel Marvin, who creates deep and dense, ritualistic, tar choked compositions that easily belie his years. The whole Veinke package leaves a very strong, immediate impression: the shadowy cover art hits you first, followed by the dark paradox of the title, The Black Summer, and finally the gloomy, grinding atmospherics, chilling overtones and dark inspiration of the music itself.

Disorienting swells of pitch black ambience build up like thick coats of residue to form the first composition, all seven of which are simply titled with Roman numerals. "II" introduces light and sporadic metal clangs and deep, droning chants that add an oddly tribal bent to the music. "IV" spews forth the more pounding industrial side of the Veinkean formula, a noisy and corrosive blend of charred rhythms and intermittent feedback. The noise is carried over into "V," with framework abandoned to provide an intense, static-charged din with only a slight semblance of structure peeling through near the end. "VI" resembles a grisly Illusion of Safety sound collage, with a series of crackling noises that leave an odd impression of the crunching sound of amplified deep fried flesh.

Veinke is quite a departure from Marvin's roots as a classically trained pianist, a side to his musical skill that he incorporates more of into his Veinke side-project Korridor, which will debut soon. The Black Summer lives up to its name, invoking a variety of grim connotations to the raw sounds and further establishing the project's firm footing in the convoluted dark music scene.