In Transmission is perhaps the most immediate album I’ve heard all year. I feel like I’m front row at a show and only years spent developing self control have saved my couch from being turned into kindling in a living room mosh session.
Only thirty-six minutes long, you still feel spent when the last note fades, such is the might of this album.
The reality is that it draws you into a trance with it’s droning rhythms, building tension and beauty slowly, Ghafur revealing more of this monster with each bile filled invective.
Don’t do drugs. Do Bataille, instead.
I can count on any Sentient Ruin release to be well crafted, challenging in some way, and aesthetically interesting.
This entity is death metal in its purest form, angry and hungry, eager to feed.
There is really a lot going on here, yet the eight tracks remain (mostly) within the confines of Raw Black Metal as a distinct subgenre.
I press play, I am transported to some warm, dark, dangerous, and welcoming place, and then some indeterminate time later, I come slowly back to this world.
This release has real riffs, played well, and yet retains that rugged feeling through production choices.
I think the only important thing left to say, is roll for initiative!