Best Russian post-industrial music.
After releasing the appreciated "Sublustrum" ("Outcry") filled with the spirit of decadence, steampunk and sombre surrealism, spring 2010 saw the release of a new psychological quest - "Phobos 1953".
The action takes place in March 1953 in an abandoned Soviet bunker - a place of strange experiments on the human psyche.
Explores such themes as the limits of mental possibilities, the electronic voice phenomenon, experiments with thought-transference and impact of fear on the human organism.
The soundtrack, presented on this CD, embodies the project's concept in sound.
An industrial atmosphere, leisurely soundscapes turn into states of calm estrangement and isolationism.
Excursions into the unknown corners of the consciousness bring to surface old memories and long forgotten yet vaguely familiar images...
Laboratorial claustrophobia grows into light melancholia.
This musical picture is performed in the trademark style of Anthesteria combining abstract dark ambient, melodic neoclassics and experimental sonic artifacts.

The release is packed in a DVD-size double cardboard sleeve with full-colour cards depicting game locations and fragments of a book about mental suggestions from 1962.

Tracklist :
1. 1953
2. Inside the Bunker
3. Psychokinesis
4. Mercurial Shower Facility
5. Electric Shadows
6. The Cell
7. Black March
8. Shortwave Solitudes
9. Electric Shadows (live)