Blind Equation – A Funeral in Purgatory (Post-Cybergrind Glitch Goth)
The album’s visuals were my initial lifeline: a haunting blend of dark anime, raw glitch, and a somber, dripping grey palette that perfectly shrouded the band’s identity. But the moment the music hit, I was at an immediate impasse. This wasn’t a “grower”; it was an instant gauntlet, demanding a total reevaluation of music itself: genre, style, vocals, hell, even instrumentation. My ears swore guitars and bass were involved, yet astonishingly, they’re utterly absent. Instead, a relentless drum attack and a diverse vocal assault, spanning screamo to post-black metal, are underpinned by an audacious, omnipresent keytar. It’s baffling how this trio conjures such a massive sonic landscape almost entirely from electronics, especially from that keytar, which is like a revolution unto itself. For all of its fluffiness and serenity, it’s utilized here to craft something entirely different.
A Funeral in Purgatory finds Blind Equation at a remarkable peak based on previous material. This isn’t just glitchy, grungy noise; it’s a dense, visceral pain journal written by the hands of post-pubescent angst and gothic anime sensibilities. The sweeping electronic patterns, layered over what can only be described as distorted keytar riffs, forge a spellbinding fusion that utterly defies easy categorization. Forget cybergrind tagging; while its echoes might surface, the ultimate result is a genre-shattering enigma, one that will challenge even the most seasoned listener to pinpoint what the hell Blind Equation has actually accomplished. Their future journey promises to be nothing short of extraordinary. This may be the first time a younger band (in the sense of their actual ages) didn’t irritate me with pretentious idealism. Instead, we find suffering, pain, and all of the things that make humanity the brutal reality that it is.
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Written by Stanley, Devourer of Souls
Blind Equation – A Funeral in Purgatory
Prosthetic Records
Cover Art: Paris Shadrovovstov (aka Angel Gasm)
4.5 / 5
