Architecture of Realities

Let it be known right from the get go that this is not a conventional black metal album. It’s not easy to create something new within the genre (or any genre for that matter), but Dimensional Psychosis have at least come pretty damn close to accomplishing it. To be honest I find it extremely hard to even come up with a single act to use for comparison. Unfortunately I also have to admit I have a somewhat hard time getting into their spaced-out message and futuristic aesthetics.

This is way more technical than most black metal as everything’s intricate and complex. The riffing is technical, there are tons of twists and quirks and it’s accompanied by frenetic and masterful drumming that never loses its intensity no matter what tempo change they might swing by your way. And the tempo changes are plenty, with each corner bringing something completely new to the table. There’s absolutely no telling just what the hell will come next, and while the riffing and drumming might be what one will notice change in, the keyboard is what really whips up a spaced-out atmosphere. There are tons of these weird samplings, freakish melodies and weird-ass sounds popping up when you least expect it. It is truly way out there… Vocally it’s absolutely top-notch with intense screams of several variants, that on a few occasions recede into a deep grunt.

There’s no kidding around here, it’s tight-as-hell and ultra frenetic in intensity. The lads are seriously talented musicians, no doubt about it. The experimental, noisy, progressive, jazzy chaos is somehow tamed, and it flows very naturally and coherent despite extremely unorthodox elements to the song structures. But despite how freakishly and wonderfully weird this is I just can’t get fully into it. The aesthetics doesn’t do it for me. I respect the fact that they’re going for something new instead of treading the same worn-out satanic paths we’ve all heard thousands of times before, but it just doesn’t work for me. Musically I have nothing to complain about; it’s some intense shit.

If you’re familiar with the death metal band Dripping you have at least a clue to what’s going on here, albeit in a black metal manner of the later Dødheimsgard instead of death. Now imagine adding the schizophrenia of modern-day jazz grinders Psychofagist and intensity of Semargl to that, and you have an end-result that still doesn’t really cut it, but at least comes close to what Dimensional Psychosis sounds like. It’s like a semi-industrial, death metal-laced futuristic black metal album for aliens. Progressive, technical and unorthodox being the keywords.

Originally written for http://www.mylastchapter.net