Michael Carter
This is an absolute killer,if Meshuggah had taken Catch 33 further they might have come up with something like this.Chaos Echoes,Dead Neanderthals,merging with Blut Aus Nord era Mort does not do this record justice,mix in a bit of John Coltranes Ascension and you are listening to something very special indeed.
Ian Lovdahl
100% the kind of music and sound that I've come to know and love from Marston and his colleagues. cavernous, meticulous, jazzy, and all that.
Favorite track: Supernova Remnant.
"Catatonic Effigy’s debut album is a powerful and effective attempt at inhabiting the zones between extreme metal, free jazz, and modern composition. The combination of the density of metal and the rhythmic looseness of jazz is breathtaking. One of the most exciting additions to the post-metal canon in years." - Phil Freeman (Wire)
"A sonic Frankenstein’s monster with a body of ear-splitting riffs, tectonic bass & drum detonations, and drifting electronics—simultaneously majestic and terrifying." Antonio Poscic (Angry Metal Guy)
"Three of the best minds that avant-garde music has to offer."- Spyros Stasis (Pop Matters)
"Listen to this album loud – not just because it rocks, but for the detail. You won’t be disappointed." - Mike Borella (Avant Music News)
Iluso Records continues in its obsession for extreme avant-garde metal with its latest release ‘Putrid Tendency’ - the debut album by Catatonic Effigy.
Having recorded his celebrated solo record (The Compass) at Colin Marston’s Menegroth studio back in March 2018, New York based guitarist/composer Álvaro Domene pitched the idea of working together with the famed sound engineer and bass player Marston (Krallice, Gorguts, Dysrhythmia). Australian based drummer Mike Caratti joined the project and with his label partner and long-time friend and collaborator Domene, began writing for the session in the latter part of 2018. No one knew where they would end up. No one could have imagined the results. But excited by the prospect and united in their pursuit for pushing the limits of extreme metal, the trio met for a recording session in January 2019 at Menegroth that was to become one of those rare days when the stars align and everything falls into place – as the band entered the most grotesquely taunted sound world of musical imagination. The result is Putrid Tendency by Catatonic Effigy.
The band’s forceful synchronicity is immediately apparent on this album and they sound as though they have played together for over a decade. The opening track, Putrid Density, is the realisation of a hand-drawn graphic score comprising four parts each detailing the manipulation of shape, density and texture while combining elements of gut wrenching drone against distorted shards of noise and feedback.
Gravitational Lensing and Time Dilation bookend the albums middle section offering some respite through catatonic minimalism, ambient and eerie tailings of sonic residue. Garakku, the albums shortest piece, is a violent statement of thrash-metal brutalism bedded in the harmonic language of Olivier Messiaen against shifting and unnerving rhythmic tension.
Supernova Remnant is perhaps the albums pinnacle. Composed, by Domene, upon the five stages of a stellar explosion, the piece is inspired by the post-tonal composer Giacinto Scelsi while channelling late-Coltrane and Sunn O))). This epic experiment pits the astonishing focus of atonal minimalism against harsh noise and avant-garde metal. The album closes with Putrid Destiny, a schizoid collage of XXX riffs set against hyperactively improvised noise-metal mayhem creating a warped maelstrom where individual voices decompose into one vigorous and nauseating wave of brutal intensity.
Mashing elements of extreme noise, death metal, free jazz and contemporary classical music, Putrid Tendency is a sonic assault for those with an appetite for the most extreme, intense and challenging music.
credits
released November 28, 2019
Álvaro Domene: seven string electric guitar and electronics
Colin Marston: six string electric bass and synths
Mike Caratti: drums and percussion
Tracks 1 and 3 by Caratti, tracks 2 and 5 by Marston, track 4 by Domene, tracks 6 and 7 by Domene/Marston/Caratti.
Recorded (11 January 2019) mixed and mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves.
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I'm brand new to this band. It was the gimmicks/necessities of recording with phones and in cars that caught my attention at first. I like the low-fi sound, but the music itself is really good. It's black metal and post-metal, but the synths give it something extra. At times it borders on synthwave/chiptune music. Very heavy and atmospheric but also beautiful in its dissonance. dharmalogos
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Love the Ketjak/Ramayana Monkey Chant sample in here! Never expected to hear anybody sample that, let alone on a metal album. Hails! shrouded.in.antiquity
The interstellar jazz group's first record in 20 years carries their late leader's wide-reaching legacy across stunning new vistas. Bandcamp Album of the Day Nov 9, 2020
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Answers the question of where Krallice would go after "Years Past Matter." Completely unclassifiable, the songs are simultaneously compact and complex. The playing and musicanship is breathtaking... "Wastes of Ocean" into "Over Spirit" being a prime example. It must also be said that Mick Barr is a badass motherfucker all over this album. "Agony in collective ignorance/Called upon by thyself/Thyself being a part of all life/In the sickness/Quarantined in pure paranoia" Pretty prophetic, right? bcb723