Antimozdebeast – Vision
Antimozdebeast – Vision
Self-Released
Release Date: 13/01/2023
Running Time: 58:00
Review by Wallace Magri
8/10
Antimozdebeast is a Florida based one-man-band created by Gabriel Palacio, that, according to the press release, delivers in the new album “Vision” “(…) a dynamic selection of tracks from Antimozdebeast’s discography that showcase the project’s distinctive experimental edge”.
I wasn’t aware of Antimozdebeast previous albums, but I checked them out on Spotify, just to get familiar to their musical proposal. The songs are basically Harsh Industrial with Techno interventions, creating programmed sound layers to which overlap distorted vocals, which screams experimental poetries full of rage and ‘back to basics industrial musical conception’.
I would say that “Vision” isn’t recommended for those who want to get in touch with Harsh Industrial for the very first time, as it’s required for the listener of the album some previous knowledge from bands like Nine Inch Nails and Skinny Puppy to realize the song’s intention: chaotic ambience, unpredictable directions for each song, dissonant guitar phrases here and there and Mayhem-like vocals, with feracious electro-bass that gets the songs close to Extreme Metal patterns, from a peculiar perspective.
Listening to “Vision” for several times compromised my hearing aid, but, after a while, the ambience of the album got me to a hypnotic state of mind and… that is when the chaos starts to make sense for my ears. ‘Untitled’, for instance, is an Electro trip combining Harsh Industrial patterns, with piano passages and psychedelic techno programming and synths.
‘Melodies of the Mad’ gets close to Avant Garde Black Metal, with distorted guitar riffs, subtly substituted by electronic elements, maintaining the tempo of the music intact. That is basically that kind of songs that causes strangeness to listeners, from the opening track ‘Masquerade of Death’ until the last electro musical experimentation on “ICRI”.
Maybe 12 songs are a bit too much for that kind of experimentalism, but it’d worth a listen, if you want to get your brains collapsed in the process. Now that you are warned, it’s up to you to push play and listen to “Vision”.
TRACKLISTING:
01. Masquerade of Death
02. Rebirth of Sin
03. Portrait of Apocalypse
04. Shadows Upon The earth
05. Contours of Her Body
06. Sky Unfurled
07. Untitled (Instrumentals)
08. Maladies of The Mad
09. Sins of the Muse
10. Blood Note
11. ICRI
LINE-UP:
Gabriel Palacio – all instruments, programming, synths and vocals
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