Hear the Saw... Coming Near

Exmortes is one of those bands that's just so clueless, so absentminded, and so devoid of anything resembling skill that any change does nothing to improve it at all. You could say that Hear the Saw... Coming Near does a minutely better job at sounding evil than the previous EP, it also has slightly cleaner production, but that all ends up being for nothing it reveals just how lazy and incompetent this "music" is. There is nothing of substance on here, just like earlier. If you want to hear the bare minimum of what it takes to have something considered as music, Exmortes is your band. I'm not sure I could find a more incompetent "band" out there if I actually tried. Even kids with single-digit ages know when they are doing something to such an inept degree. The fully-grown man behind this is somebody who cannot even see that. This is definitely a contender for the laziest thing ever released in metal.

How is this one the laziest and most skill-less things ever put to a record? Here's how. This EP only consists of one chord being played through a flanger throughout the entire thing. It's just the guitar effects irritatingly scraping back and forth for the entire EP. It never lets up or even varies slightly from song to song. It all sounds the same, everything. The only thing different from each song to the other is the title that Verpus growls out repeatedly and sporadically throughout this whole thing. His voice doesn't even sound menacing when he growls, he just sounds like a fat guy with a mental disability having a hard time breathing. His drum playing is a mess and is so dulled you can barely feel anything from it. Everything turns into a muddy mess of flanger scraping and neutered, directionless drum pounding with some occasional, limp death metal vocals. If this is Jan List's attempt at sounding dark and atmospheric, he has thoroughly botched it. Once you get past how insufferably incompetent this is, it just becomes boring. Whereas artists like Abruptum and Moëvöt were able to use thick, primitive soundscapes to make very raw and terrifying atmospheres, the sound on Hear the Saw... Coming Near is thinner than single-ply toilet paper, and more bland and fragile than a matzo cracker.

There is no substance to this, there is no atmosphere, no rhythm, no beat, no melody, no mood, no skill, no ideas, no sense, no anything. It's just a one-chord mess that abuses some poor little distortion box while every song sounds the same and the vocals and drums have no talent or focus to them whatsoever. This is a boring slog with no variance or enthusiasm in the slightest. This is a musical air-biscuit, which is an odd comparison considering I have heard farts that were more engaging than this. This Exmortes EP is a reigning champion of substance-less suckiness.