Inanimate

As I went onto bandcamp and started listening to this album, I winced. Damn is this a painful album, and it lives up to the Raw Black Metal genre. Hailing from Canada, Inanimate utilizes noise, amp feedback, and horrible microphones to get their painful, destructive point across. Surprisingly for a noise-y RBM album like this, it runs at a full length 25 minutes. Though still composed of mainly short, 1 minute songs (only one song goes past the 2 minute mark), the album works if you wish to get your ears stripped and raped by this record's loud, mayhemic noise.

Starting with the first track which starts the album off rather abruptly, is "Lucid Nightmare", an in-your-face opener to this wall of noise. The drums follow no real rhythm, they simply add to the destruction this album brings on. Picking select tracks is kind of useless for this release as they just kinda form together into a giant wall of noise (as mentioned above), so I'll talk about the instruments more as a whole.

Guitars are whammy-bar hell. Distorting and contorting everything to the utmost extreme. The guitarist here strums every chord all at once, over and over, once again adding to the hellish atmosphere this record entails. The guitars are almost like another percussion instrument, chugging along to the mayhem.

In the vocal department, it's mostly screams of sorrow and agony. The vocalist uses the terrible microphone's to their advantage ala Burzum-style, screeching very, VERY closely to the mic. It almost gives me a headache at times but... I consider that a compliment, because I love this style of absolutely terrible agonizing RBM. It reminds me alot of Emit's "The Dark Bleeding", one of my favorite noise-y albums.

I enjoy the... Dark, added atmosphere of the album as well. It's clearly very nihilistic and hopeless, as if Hell is literally taking over earth, and these are the sounds of it. Maybe I'm looking too much into it but that's my thoughts on the albums atmosphere. The cover art, while simple, also adds to that factor, showcasing a black and white wasteland.

Unfortunately, that'll be the end of this review, as much as I like the album, it unfortunately has little else for me to talk about, so I'll leave on this note. Listen to this album if you're okay with hellishly noise-y records like this one. Good day.

-Someone who's rather grateful, and somewhat dead inside.