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NP: Abberation - Refracture

Don't know how this gets in under black metal. I gets they have to categorize it somewhere. This is right off the Impetuous Ritual branch. The opening track, at least, is about how I like to take this stuff: a trudge through several varieties of foul, noisy, clattering, but structured metal. I'll take it.

Who said this was black metal? This is death metal. No mention anywhere on the Youtube vid about any black metal. I've come to like most of this Sentient Ruin issued stuff. Not everything they put out is killer, but lately it seems like 4 out of 5 are pretty damn good. Quite the lengthy blurb though, whomever wrote this must've really been into these dudes, and been really stoned, or been tripping or something. Or else they're just having us on. The album's pretty good though, cavernous, brutal and dissonant, but not dissonant enough to make my head hurt. Funny though, looking at who these guys actually are and what other bands they're in, I like all of these dudes' main bands better than this. 

 

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Refracture, the process of light deviating as passed through a medium. A similar concept explored by US necromorphed death metal disfiguration Aberration (formed by members of Void Rot, Suffering Hour and Nothingness among others), who finally present their long awaited debut offering "Refracture", a mind-bending, obliterating displacement of mutated dark death metal tonnage set to permanently reshape the lineaments of experimental and underground USDM. But there is no light contemplated in Aberration's contorted audial design, only darkness, and specifically, rather than light, the self, consciousness is passed through a perceptive medium of surrealism, and is refractured into "other" self, the core concept of all abominations. Bands like Antediluvian, Portal, Hissing and Altarage are no new comers to the art of death metal defilement through the ritual of perceptive and deceptive psychic mind wars, but what Aberration have accomplished with "Refracture" defies definitions and ads an ulterior progression to the end of death metal and of music as we know it. With dissonance used as a weapon and compositional surrealism metastasized into a ravenous dissociative medium, "Refracture" tunnels through the listeners brain like a psyche-boring destructive mass, devouring conscience and ravaging synapses through the sheer force of musical absurdity. An anti-reality is achieved through its sideways-moving sprawl and its labyrinthine, shapeshifting pace, with the listener's senses and mind used as helpless hosts in which a mutant parasitism is unleashed into a form of absurd, demented and frenzied perceptive devourment.

 

 

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Who said this was black metal? This is death metal. No mention anywhere on the Youtube vid about any black metal. 

 

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Refracture, the process of light deviating as passed through a medium. A similar concept explored by US necromorphed death metal disfiguration Aberration (formed by members of Void Rot, Suffering Hour and Nothingness among others), who finally present their long awaited debut offering "Refracture", a mind-bending, obliterating displacement of mutated dark death metal tonnage set to permanently reshape the lineaments of experimental and underground USDM. But there is no light contemplated in Aberration's contorted audial design, only darkness, and specifically, rather than light, the self, consciousness is passed through a perceptive medium of surrealism, and is refractured into "other" self, the core concept of all abominations. Bands like Antediluvian, Portal, Hissing and Altarage are no new comers to the art of death metal defilement through the ritual of perceptive and deceptive psychic mind wars, but what Aberration have accomplished with "Refracture" defies definitions and ads an ulterior progression to the end of death metal and of music as we know it. With dissonance used as a weapon and compositional surrealism metastasized into a ravenous dissociative medium, "Refracture" tunnels through the listeners brain like a psyche-boring destructive mass, devouring conscience and ravaging synapses through the sheer force of musical absurdity. An anti-reality is achieved through its sideways-moving sprawl and its labyrinthine, shapeshifting pace, with the listener's senses and mind used as helpless hosts in which a mutant parasitism is unleashed into a form of absurd, demented and frenzied perceptive devourment.

Oh, I found it on a site that claims to only deal in black metal specifically. Can't really blame 'em for letting a few dubious submissions slip through sometimes. Seems like it's just one or two dudes really running the thing, and they're trying to do some pretty comprehensive coverage. Not really advisable for a small or non-existent staff, but I always admire the spirit of endeavors like that and I've managed to pull a few things from there that I wouldn't otherwise have been aware of.

That is indeed a hell of a blurb. I think maybe we need a more metal term for lily gilding in this manner: Lamb-gutting? Liver-grating? Limb-graveling? Any suggestions?  

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Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury (2013)

 

Man, people were all over this album when it came out; I mean really hyping this thing to the moon and back. I went through the whole thing once and came away enjoying it, but it didn't level me the way it had so many others. Might give it a second chance here soon.

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Man, people were all over this album when it came out; I mean really hyping this thing to the moon and back. I went through the whole thing once and came away enjoying it, but it didn't level me the way it had so many others. Might give it a second chance here soon.

If you're in a position to really appreciate all the detail and spatial definition in the mix, it hits hard. The riffs aren't telling the story, it's all about interlocking rhythms and textures. Certainly my favorite of theirs, not something I need to listen to a lot, but it's an experience when I do put it on. Most stuff I listen to for detail I prefer on headphones, but this one is speakers all the way.

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