Noise comes from two camps.
1. The intellectual, dada camp inspired by the likes of Merzbow and The Velvet Underground.
2. The very harsh, very confrontational camp, inspired by Boyd Rice. Often embraces controversial and sexually violent content.
I think noisegrinders Scab Addict, with their newest full length Otoobach Muehl, manage to straddle both camps with a good degree of skill.
This album is inspired by internet personality Otoobach, who reviews horrific, disturbing films, and Otto Muehl, a Viennese actionist famous for his sexually violent scenes and his role in founding the Friedrichschof Commune.
For Each song on the record, Scab Addict takes a sample from Otoobach, normally about sexually deviancy and bodily fluids, and envelopes it in some of the haziest, most ferocious noisegrind I've ever had the pleasure (?) of hearing.
It's hard to explain exactly what the music on the album sounds like, except that this is what I imagine Moloch sounds like. It is the sounds of tormented, hopeless, malevolent industrialism. Truly hellish.
I laughed at several of the samples throughout this album, but the music is so creeping and hateful that I ended up feeling a lot of mixed emotions. If you like your humor as black as you can possibly be, this is an album for you.
One track actually made me gag. Thirty one seconds of vaginal sipping and cybergrind flailing.
The drums on this album are deserving of note. The kick drums come in as subdural bass drones, while the snare and symbols are incredibly high pitched and fast. I'm not sure what is an actual drum kit or what is electronic but it works just the same.
If I could offer any critique I would say that the album is a couple tracks too long. Noisegrind does not exactly leave room for variety, so keeping records brief preserves their punch and stops the listener from getting bored with the material.
Give this a listen if you'd like too laugh and maybe throw up.
8/10.
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