The more sinister alter ego of Magnus Sundstrom ( The Protagonist ) with his side project Des Esseintes hell bent on destructive behaviour that represents a shift to a primal dark side of the human psyche. New masterwork "Les Diaboliques" is an existentialist inferno of various musical trash and harsh rhythms, with clanging, mechanized percussion barely cushioned by a menacing ambience of cinematically styled electronics igniting the background. These are dark regions explored on the six tracks here, populated by stomping behemoths that threaten to crush with every step, and shards of visceral, dynamic textures that slice across the proverbial sonic landscape. While Sundstrom's work has certainly garnered recognition, "Les Diaboliques" may just solidify him in the lexicon of the industrial public, or take him to a whole new level. Greatly appealing to not only fans of old school greats such as SPK and Test Department, but to those fans of Cold Meat Industry and even some Hands label material