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THOU - You, Whom I Have Always Hated

2015 (Thrill jockey)
sludge-doom
by Francesco Nunziata
6

Due delle più interessanti realtà di area sludge-doom rinnovano la collaborazione dopo la pubblicazione, nello scorso Aprile, dell’Ep “Released From Love”, un disco in cui le due line-up si fondevano per creare un sound potentissimo e asfissiante.

Meglio prodotto e complessivamente più valido, “You, Whom I Have Always Hated” aumenta il minutaggio e ha dalla sua una rilettura assolutamente brutale di “Terrible Lie” dei Nine Inch Nails, propulsa dalle due batterie di Lee Buford e Terry Gulino. Batterie che, martellando come due ossesse, all’inizio avevano intanto preparato il terreno per l’esplosione termonucleare di “Her Strongholds Unvanquishable”, una mostruosa dimostrazione di forza bruta in cui le ugole di Bryan Funck e Chip King collidevano tra simulacri di agonia, mentre il brano virava verso una funerea processione.

Ancora più assordante, “The Devils Of Trust Steal The Souls Of The Free” picchia davvero duro sui timpani, mentre l’interludio di “He Returns To The Place Of His Iniquity” apre su scenari ambientali, incrociando fondali rumoristi e risonanze misteriose. L’abbandono estatico in cui precipita, quindi, la conclusiva “Lurking Fear” prelude all’ultimo assalto a suon di watt e distorsioni pantagrueliche, con gli strumenti a sfregiare, tutti insieme appassionatamente, le casse dell’impianto stereo.

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04/02/2015

This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Francesco Nunziata, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.

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Tracklist

  1. 1. Her Strongholds Unvanquishable
  2. 2. The Devils of Trust Steal the Souls of the Free
  3. 3. Terrible Lie
  4. 4. Beyond the Realms of Dream, That Fleeting Shade Under the Corpus of Vanity
  5. 5. He Returns to the Place of His Iniquity
  6. 6. Lurking Fear

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