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You
know how when you see the aftermath of a violent car
crash you can’t help but look and look and look. Well,
the latest album of Deiphago feels like that. Only you
can’t help but listen and listen and listen. Filipino
Antichrist is a near disaster, a clanky ball of mangled
metal, a chaotic racket of crazed and incoherent
screams, somewhat coordinated blast beats and sounds that could
very remotely come from a guitar but mostly just
approximate very fat feedback. In other words, the likes of
Filipino Antichrist could trigger a line of firings;
from the producer (maybe he was out smoking crack) to
the guitarist (I am still struggling to find a single
riff) to the drummer (he’d be replaced by a drum
machine) to the artist who created the artwork (I don’t
care about your version of ‘evil’ but a clawed Gremlin
is not an Antichrist-like figure).
But since
when have lovers of the extreme cared about senseful music? If
you ever loved Sarcofago you can’t come around like a bitch now
and claim that Filipino Antichrist is just noise. Sure thing,
you have a point as some of these tunes may be nothing more than
noise, random rudimentary and rapid noise juxtaposed with
satanic and bestial screams, but noise all the same. Yet, that
doesn’t take away from the awesome experience. As ridiculous
and absurd as Filipino Antichrist may seem to most, it is rageful, brutal and extreme nevertheless. And in the world of
Satan loving, goat worshipping, third-world dwelling, Tagalog-speaking
dudes this just rules. Ahem, it also rules in the world of
English speaking dudes.
I have only
heard one record this wild in the last couple of years. And it
belongs to Spaniards Teitanblood. There are a few parallels
between both - like say, both bands are black leather-clad but
you find that at most gay bars so that doesn’t qualify - the
main one has to do with the totally amorphous ‘shape’ of the
music. The songs of both bands seem to be the result not of
songwriting but of spontaneous séances where all that’s
challenge is the decibels of hate. The difference between both
bands has more to do with the heaviness of it all; while Teitanblood had a clear death metal influence, Deiphago have a
strident sound that purposefully borders on the obnoxious.
Vocalist
Voltaire 666 for instance; bloodies up his lungs and throat. His
vocals are so raw and in your face, it sounds as if the
microphone was positioned inside his stomach. And drummer
Devastator has the most strenuous job. The dude is a relentless
machine. Somehow, his performance as insane as it is, it’s the
most controlled one. At least we can obviously hear what he is
doing. Guitarist Sidapa is a piece of work. Dude, I don’t know
what he was doing during the recording of Filipino Antichrist
but I’d recommend the other two to split in equal parts his piece of the pie.
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