Style: Dissonant black/death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: A deep connection with the primal rage that forged the earth
Thoughts: Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
Errata is massive. Errata is the fulfilment of years of potential shown for a genre that has bordered on irrelevant for me. Errata is indeed a reassessment of the dissonant metal genre for me.
Dissonant metal is a genre I fell deeply in love with a few years ago. I tried to seek out as much as I could, and went to great lengths to get into music that was intentionally difficult to crack. It was like a game, could I get past the obvious hurdles that the band put in place to prevent me from immediately liking it?
As time goes on though so do musical tastes. The more I listened to the genre the more I heard the same tropes be repeated time and again. The same chords were used, and things that were once challenging to listen to became commonplace. The genre had lost its luster.
That was the general opinion I had of the dissonant black and death metal genres for a bit over a year now. In that time I have not purchased anything new or barely listened to anything that would be considered "dissonant" by most metal standards. That was until Errata.
Errata cracked me back open. It made me appreciate the genre like I hadn't in years. It had that "it" factor that I had been missing. It zigged when I expected it to zag. It used silence in a way that few bands outside of Deathspell Omega ever have. It was the album I needed to appreciate the music for what it was again.
Dissonant metal is still a genre that requires an extra ordinary album for me to truly appreciate it. The part where I pick up every single release that comes out is long past. I am at a saturation point, but that does not mean that there aren't still good albums out there. Errata has indeed lived up to its name.
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