Here's my first review of a 2024 release. And I guess both sonically and visually the year couldn't have started with a bigger bang.
EFFLUENCE - Destructive Transfixed Incorporeality (2024)
One of the definitely most how does it get even more extreme? among recent Avantgarde Metal projects just dropped a digital EP consisting of recordings from 2021 and 2022.
Among the core concepts of Effluence is the logical escalation of Death Metal to a point of hilarious exaggeration. And the first two rather short tracks "Projected Hostility" and "Frozen Boiler" are both complete embodiments of that premise. Constant high speed blasts with a nerve-racking metal bucket drum sound, layers and layers of chugging and riffing rhythm guitars and sick howling leads. Other indistinguishable noises between synth textures and skteches of Free Jazz are mixed into the hellish chaos, which is glued together by the slimy ooze of the gargling guttural Death Metal vocals. In an alternative mix you could probably have made twenty minutes worth of Extreme Metal with what was recorded, but Effluence appearantly just stapled everything on top of each other, so the combined running time is only five minutes.
But then we still have the eleven minutes of the title track "Destructive Transfixed Incorporeality" to come, which in the beginning promises to be the same unfathomable madness, only longer - until after only two minutes there's a breakdown introducing actually discernable Jazz and Dark Ambient horror soundtrack ideas, which quickly shift into Drone Metal and experimental Noise with (of course) chaotic vocal samples... It's a nightmare beyond something as insignificant as genre definitions or the question whether this is actually still music. Which isn't of any concern to Effluence anyway.
The main chunk of the track is just a pure stream of subconscious terror, with bombs of Free Death exploding here and there, but ultimately just leaving you in unresolved discomfort. Of the good kind. It's awesome.
Is this EP as great as the total embrace of Jazz Death on "Sarmat" or the genius take on the concept on concept records on "Liquified"? Nah, probably not. But it isn't terribly far away.
While I'll gladly allow you not to want a fine art print of the cover hanging above your kitchen table ("Liquified" would be more appropriate for that anyway.) there's still no reasonable argument why not all Earth's people should unconditionally love Effluence.
Among the core concepts of Effluence is the logical escalation of Death Metal to a point of hilarious exaggeration. And the first two rather short tracks "Projected Hostility" and "Frozen Boiler" are both complete embodiments of that premise. Constant high speed blasts with a nerve-racking metal bucket drum sound, layers and layers of chugging and riffing rhythm guitars and sick howling leads. Other indistinguishable noises between synth textures and skteches of Free Jazz are mixed into the hellish chaos, which is glued together by the slimy ooze of the gargling guttural Death Metal vocals. In an alternative mix you could probably have made twenty minutes worth of Extreme Metal with what was recorded, but Effluence appearantly just stapled everything on top of each other, so the combined running time is only five minutes.
But then we still have the eleven minutes of the title track "Destructive Transfixed Incorporeality" to come, which in the beginning promises to be the same unfathomable madness, only longer - until after only two minutes there's a breakdown introducing actually discernable Jazz and Dark Ambient horror soundtrack ideas, which quickly shift into Drone Metal and experimental Noise with (of course) chaotic vocal samples... It's a nightmare beyond something as insignificant as genre definitions or the question whether this is actually still music. Which isn't of any concern to Effluence anyway.
The main chunk of the track is just a pure stream of subconscious terror, with bombs of Free Death exploding here and there, but ultimately just leaving you in unresolved discomfort. Of the good kind. It's awesome.
Is this EP as great as the total embrace of Jazz Death on "Sarmat" or the genius take on the concept on concept records on "Liquified"? Nah, probably not. But it isn't terribly far away.
While I'll gladly allow you not to want a fine art print of the cover hanging above your kitchen table ("Liquified" would be more appropriate for that anyway.) there's still no reasonable argument why not all Earth's people should unconditionally love Effluence.
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