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I
should be the last person authorized to talk about music
like this ‘cause really I don’t give much of a shit
about this side of the music world and because whatever
I speak I speak without previous knowledge. But god
fucking damned do these fuckers hit it hard. Ever since
I ran into the Ad Noiseam label from Germany they’ve
never ceased to amaze me. The music they put out is as
far as yours truly is concerned, really pushing the limits. Not the
black metallers, no. They’ve proven to be more
conservative than all. Stoner rockers aren’t pushing the
limits of anything besides their lungs. I may call them experimental
just because they use wah-wah pedals and timidly delve
into the psychedelic, but shit my fuck for pushing the
limits. Metalcore? That’s a bit of a joke, isn’t it?
So yeah. For
the Ad Noiseam label, is more of a matter of stripping down the
guitars and issuing the beats. Beats unlike anything I’ve ever
heard. And I say all this with very little knowledge of the drum
& bass scene and its artists. My only contact with that music
came through my girlfriend, and that was like 3,000 moons ago.
These are
the facts; Pillaged & Plundered is a split recording
between Great Britain’s The Teknoist (Mike Hayward) and
Eustachian, a duo formed by John Roche and Anthony Welter. The
former is a producer who usually combines super fast and harsh
beats. Think of drum n’ bass meets extreme metal. Or think of
Slayer’s Dave Lombardo playing electronic music. And you don’t
need to know much about drum n’ bass to get the idea. You won’t
get any distorted guitars in these two songs, but the stuff is
heavy and very metal-friendly. Goes down like punch, if you like
hard hitting excess.
Eustachian
on the other hand include four songs, the fourth being a remix
of Napalm Death’s “Smear Campaign”. But you need not get to the
end of their side to experience the grind, or the extreme metal
for that matter. Their first two songs “2” and “The Sphagnum
Bog” are broken down and super angular slices of acidic and
technified grind. The drums may be programmed, but they sound
live as a fresh wound. And the songs do include guitars. Hyper
heavy under produced guitars. It's great stuff. Imagine
something like Fear Factory 10.0 and you are getting somewhere
close. The only difference being that Eustachian make Fear
Factory sound like The Shaggs.
As Ad
Noiseam puts it, this record pushes the limits of the encounter
between breakcore and metal. I concur, this may just be the new
frontier.
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