Details
Recorded in the year of your Lord MCMXCIX [1999] in Sheffield, north England. Calculated Risk products. Catalogue number: Risk #3.
Band
- Koreisch — Lyrics, music, noise, tape hiss, backward programming, experimentation and improvisation
Tracks
- Justification by faith
- Forced attrition
- Submerged Tao fixation
- A premonition of life’s erosion
- 1 inch stab wound
- Caress this violation
- Eclectic powder burn
- Preordained incarceration
- The Kevorkian solution
- Evolution through pessimism
- Archaicathodemission
- 4,000 years of suppressed dissection
- Bleed like Christ
- The eating of food sacrificed to idols
Review
Encyclopaedia Metallum classifies Koreisch as “doom metal/grindcore”. But not in the traditional sense are they. While this album contains elements that lean in the direction of doom and grindcore, it is predominantly an experimental album.
I think I have only one other CD in my collection that comes close to the experimentation that permeates this release and that’s Faith No More / Fantômas / Tomahawk front man Mike Patton’s 1996 album Adult themes for voice.
My four year old, Isaac describes the music as “naughty music”. He said while cowering in the corner of the room, through hands protecting his face. “Put it off! It’s horrible!” he exclaimed.
To be fair, I did play him perhaps one of the creepiest tracks on the album “The Kervokian solution” which sounds like a series of Jurassic Park dinosaurs break through a plate glass window while a motorbike purrs in the background, only to discover themselves in a choir rehearsal.
The album is a hotchpotch of noise, hiss, screams and shouting, blasts and riffs. It’s more art than music, at times it feels like it’s almost verging on therapy.
Conclusion
The compact disc itself has a white label with a black ink scribble. This seems to be also a perfect analogy for the music it contains.
It’s certainly not an easy listen, and as much as I appreciate what they’ve done I’m not sure I would choose to listen to this terribly often.
Review score: 50%