I can honestly say that after listening to DSKNT for the first time, my mind has been completely dismantled by this band’s unconventional approach to extreme music. The Swiss based band does not waste an opportunity to inject a lethal dose of nightmare inducing black/death metal with the release of their sophomore album, “Vacuum γ-Noise Transition.”
As of recent, extreme metal bands have become very complacent and there a too many albums that sound painfully simplistic. I definitely respect DSKNT’s ambitious nature and hellacious mindset, however, at times I cannot deny the feeling of being overwhelmed by a massive rush of chaotic sounding instrumental arrangements. This album places great emphasis on constructing tormenting pieces of music, especially with all the agonizing tempo changes and blistering guitar riffs. The album is an experimental journey into what can be achieved when a band decides to ignore what everyone else is doing by focusing their talents on crafting some deviant sounding compositions.
The album begins with an ominous sounding track called, “Spin,” and you feel as if you are being thrown into a cold inhuman void that drains you of all hope and optimism. Right away on the next track, “Deconvolution J/ψ [Part I],” the band instantaneously unleashes a furious instrumental bludgeon. The drum parts echo throughout the song and send cataclysmic shockwaves across the musical landscape. Also, the vocals are so vile sounding and add such an abhorrent touch to the already face melting inferno like sounding wasteland. “Transition K0 [Part I],” is another unreal offering of abdominal sounding torment. While listening to the track I felt as though the band was pulling me in all these different directions to where you have no time to rest your mind.
Throughout the rest of the album the music continues to present this reality altering style of extreme artistic expression. Extreme music connoisseurs will really gravitate towards songs like , “Θ-Noise - Phase Shift” and “Deconvolution Ξ*0 [Part II],” especially if they are gluttons for cranial crushing guitar playing. The ear shattering guitar arrangements convey a tremendous amount of raw aggression, which helps keep the music flowing with an unapologetic ambition until the very end.
“Vacuum γ-Noise Transition,” is definitely an album more for open minded extreme metal enthusiasts who are looking for an album that crushes boundaries and tears away at the simplistic modern metal approach. Of course this band is working with Sentient Ruin and the album is expected to come out February 5, 2021. The amount of decibel defiling artists that Sentient Ruin finds is truly amazing, and DSKNT is right at home with all the other savage bands that are fueling the merciless drive in underground metal. I highly recommend DSKNT for people willing to step though the gateways of profound extreme creativity and unfathomable sounding surrealistic horror.
Check out the song "Θ-Noise - Phase Shift” below:
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Like your review Robby!
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