The upcoming full-length album from 8 Hour Animal is a profoundly hostile sounding extreme creation. Titled, “Kill Your Boss,” the album features a plethora of dissonant electronic noises along with some sadistically hypnotic industrial rhythms.
The one-man act behind 8 Hour Animal dives deep into the catastrophic electronic nightmare sound established by acts such as Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Godflesh and My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, yet also incorporates some very unconventional methods into the overall mix. 8 Hour Animal simply does not follow a repetitive formula and the music makes you feel like you are experiencing a schizophrenic meltdown. Compared to 8 Hour Animal’s previous release, “Resigner,” I felt as though the songs on this album sounded even more warped at times by offering an overwhelming amount of bludgeoning industrial sounds.
On the first track, “Real Masks,” I liked how the artist built up this catchy metallic industrial sounding rhythm and then slowly started to throw in these disturbing burst of distortion and horrifying vocal parts. There were times during the track when I started feeling dizzy following along to all the different noises that seemed to mercilessly clutter up the soundscape. The entire album is truly a frantic tornado of distortion and harsh electronic rhythms with tracks such as, “Grind Down” and “Under the Sod,” being prominent examples of how 8 Hour Animal is not looking to captivate listeners with breath taking melodies. The music is almost a surreal reflection of how humanity is slowly starting to crumble and people are mentality becoming unhinged under the societal pressures which haunt them each day.
Although most of the album contains intense mind melting arrangements, I was most impressed by the track, “Thaw.” The song’s tempo at first is very slow and very hypnotic sounding, but the music goes through this unbelievably eye opening industrial metamorphosis. Towards the end of the song you become engrossed in the hallucinogenic cinematic atmosphere and soon drift into the sheer dark electronic void. The last song on the album, “Make It Easy for Me,” is a decent track as well and convey’s a more 90’s industrial sound by capturing that raw surrealistic tone. When I look back at the entire album I definitely hear the influences in each compositions, but I cannot deny the unique approach and delivery that the artist behind 8 Hour Animal is able to achieve.
8 Hour Animal’s, “Kill Your Boss,” is a vivid example of true unorthodox artistic creativity that strives to tear down the walls of mundane extreme music. Although there were times on this album where I felt as if the arrangements were a bit disorganized, the album’s overall presentation is all about establishing a truly entropic environment which challenges order and structure. Fans of old school industrial/experimental electronic music will really take a liking to this album’s sound, so I highly recommend checking the album out if you are into savage mind altering electronic music. Leave it to Sentient Ruin to once again present the world with an extreme act that will leave you questioning human existence, while finding yourself completely possessed by the unfathomably deviant sounds.
Check out the song "Grind Down" below (Album comes out March 17th, 2023) :
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