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09/11/2025

Arkham Sunset Album Release at Holocene, Sept. 9, 2025 - Review

By MATT HANSEN // Arkham Sunset released the giallo film inspired album "Fatal Games" with direct support by Mnemonic Pulse

Arkham Sunset released their fifth album Fatal Games on Wednesday at Holocene, in an AV spectacle that also included Mnemonic Pulse as the opener. Both acts sharing what can only be described as a devout love of visuals from cult films.

Mnemonic Pulse's set featured projected clips of construction and farm equipment on polychromatic landscapes. But when accented by undulating synth lines and drum machines that sound like semi-automatic nail guns, that spectacle was transformed into sentient beings exploring the vast expanse of an alien planet. Both as a sound designer and AV artist Mnemonic Pulse (Caitlin Love) excels at making her projections a visual texture to her highly cinematic sound. Please score a Sci-fi movie in the future, I will be the first in line to see it. 

Arkham Sunset's album was release was unlike many in that it was part raffle, part game of Clue. Attendees were given a card upon entry that is an identity of a possible killer in a murder mystery. The audience was encouraged to stay to the end of the show when the identity of the killer would be revealed and the person holding that card would win a prize. Arkham Sunset (Gerry Hathaway) also gave fans a feast for the eyes by projecting vintage horror clips which not only played on the Fatal Games theme but also gave new meaning to Hathaway's cover of Depeche Mode's "Photographic." If your a fan of the 80s Wax Trax! industrial sound then Arkham Sunset is Portland local you shouldn't sleep on.

'FATAL GAMES' OUT NOW

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