I remember buying this during my noise stint a few weeks/months back but somehow it fell through the cracks. I don't remember what this sounds like or even if it was even noise. Let's go on an adventure to find out what's in these grooves.
Gruth play a n a s t y style of industrial. This is filthy, noisy, bass driven, inhuman, distorted to the max old school industrial. Nothing here is clean. The production? Nasty as fuck, distorted to the max. The instrumentation? Compressed beyond recognition. The Songs? The instrumentals are put together in such a way that it sounds like computers are putting out the best that they can while in a torrential downpour, what's coming out of the speakers is the few bits of ruined music and sounds left over from the short circuited mess.
When I first put this on my turntable I was worried that I had bought something that was going to regret again. I haven't been in the mood for pure noise lately, and I was afraid that I over extended myself with this one. After making it through a few times I'm happy to report that's not the case.
Gruth uses noise as a part of the sound, not the entirety of it. This album is nasty as all get out, but it still has distinct patterns that lend it some level of musicality. The noise is rhythmic, it is used to add to the music... not dominate it. This is the kind of stuff that I can really get into no matter what my mood is, because there is always room to play in raw sewage.
Befallen is short, so much so that I hesitate to call it a full release. That said it uses the time it has exceedingly well. Nothing is wasted here and each of the tracks produces a visceral response in me, this hits on a primal level. There is only the rhythm and the noise. Really strong release that's going to make me look into some more releases from this project.
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