Antigama is a very specific and crazy band, and that's why I like it so
much. And with every new album, these guys are progressing in their
insanity more and more ... and that makes me very happy. Their 6th album
can be considered as one of the most outstanding achievements of the
people of Poland. This album is like a good portion of "zubrovka", it
hits the head very hard.
Meteor is stylish by its design but
absolutely mad by its contents. Beautiful panoramic landscape of space
is very cool and colorful contrast to those 11 psychedelic tracks.
There
is a lot of small cool sound things. Guys carefully included some
industrial elements to their creation, and it gives some special flavor
to Meteor. This is especially visible on "Stargate", this song is great
opening to the cosmic theme. And I liked the crazy rock n roll'ish
pieces in «Fed By The Feeling», the first time I heard it, I was really
surprised. But «Turbulence» will completely melt your brain with its
strangeness. Perhaps the most memorable track on this album - it somehow
reminds me of some soundtrack to a shooter video game.
And all this
goes with firm Antigame pitch. It is fast, chaotic and very aggressive.
It's hard to describe - perhaps most of all it looks like a mental
hospital, where all patients once flew off the rails and began to smash
all around and kill each other)))
Rating: 8.5 / 10 Antigama Buy this CD here
If you take a close look at the UK, then you will probably see that the people living there is very strange. Even in the famous cartoon Obelix says something like "Those Brits are absolutely out of their minds." And it's not just their food and sports, this madness has penetrated into music as well. Today I will discuss the debut work of crazy guys from Evisorax. The big surprise for me was to get this cassette, since they all were sold long time ago, there were only 40 (!) of them.
This unremarkable, pink coloured cassette, in fact, turns out to be a real Pandora's box! Only 8 songs, but the level of evil and aggression kicks ass! If I say it's grindcore, I'll be wrong, it is very difficult to properly tag this band. Maybe it's something in between mathcore and grindcore. Mad guitar riffs are like sharp knife cutting through your ears, blastbeat-god drummer (not just an ordinary dude, but the one that was kicking shit out of drums in Narcosis and The Ergon Carousel!) and vocalist screaming like someone is killing him. All this shit is mixed in a terrible cacophony which completely blows your brain! It hurts but at the same time delivers so much pleasure. To be honest, I can't imagine where these guys take so much madness from and how they interpret it in sound Unfortunately it is impossible to get this release nowadays, but its digital variation (with different cover) is available somewhere on the Internet, which is very handy.
Rating: 8/10
Evisorax Epileptic Media
This seven-inch was waiting for its moment for a long time. I could not find the right words that would describe this madness, and I must say I feel very sorry for that. "Symbiosis Through Decay" was released quite a while ago, but as for me it will never loose its relevance and its specificity. Krupskaya is the band that is completely insane even if you put it in one row with other wild collectives of Great Britain.
A very strict and dark art. All in dark colors. Looking at this piece of plastic and paper, I could not help thinking that this is a release of some doom band. In their psycho music they use set of extreme trends such as sludge, mathcore, hardcore, grindcore, and, well, metal is also present here. This EP is filled with 10 completely deranged tracks. The sound is very scratchy, I can perfectly hear that everything was recorded digitally, and it is great, as analog recording (not to be confused with an analog media) would kill all the sharpness. Slow atmospheric pieces suddenly go ultra-fast, and vice versa... this like a blender that is making a fresh vegetable fresh, but you periodically stop it and see if it is ready or not :) Crazy and very specific vocals of Alex perfectly fit into the general cacophony of noise. While listening to these infernal sounds, I involuntarily draw sketches of an old tale of Alice in Wonderland in my head. But in a scene with tea party they whould have no tea, but something much stronger and hallucinogenic))
Rating: 8/10 Krupskaya fb Krupskaya official site
