Upon hitting the play button for the first track, “Myth of
Progress,” and hearing the subsequent sludgy, doom and feedback laden riffs,
amongst slow pounding drums, I thought to myself, well, here’s to what is
hopefully another good offering of doom/sludge that has popped up yet again –
but about a minute after that thought, I was thrown into a vortex of grinding
riffs, raging vocals, and a whole load of, uh, awesome, only slowing down
towards the during the outro.
After listening to the first track, and viewing the
following track’s song times (ranging 37 seconds to a little over 2 minutes,
asides from the longer, 5 minute first track), I knew I was in for something I
wasn’t expecting at all with my initial impression.
15 minutes later (the album runs 20 minutes in total, with
the inclusion of track 1), I had been through a torrential burst of speeding riffs,
energetic blastbeats, and black metal-esque, hate filled vocals, with some
songs erring more grind like, and some more hardcore like, but all completely
relentless in their execution.
Blackened crust/grind/powerviolence is something that doesn’t
really pop up often, which is unfortunate because, as one of my favorite grind
bands ever (Watchmaker) has proven, and as Black Hole of Calcutta is now
showing, it’s damn good stuff, and I’m looking forward to more of it.
Give the album a listen here: http://bhoc.bandcamp.com/
- Chase
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