Instinct: Decay

This to modern listeners is genius?? You must first ask yourself who is the modern listener? The modern ear can be tricked and deceived into believing that such work is worthy of some noterity, or even praise. Well this molested child, is just that, a fucking mannequin of the underground. A plastic, frail duplicate of what once was a real intention, of what once was a real movement. These video game playing, shopping mall beauty pageant rejects are what's to be offered in much of the U.S. and from such a stalwart of fashionability as century media records. When they caught wind of this band I can quite clearly see why they were unable to resist signing them.

The music itself is utter recycled bullshit! If you take certain tracks for instance, such as Antichrist Messiah, it is a pure ripoff of the old school primitive bands such as Beherit, though more so I believe he ripped this off from the modern Canadian band Conqueror. Throughout this album you hear not just a ripoff of great original bands such as Beherit, but also great American bands like Judas Iscariot; they are both from Illinois so this probably won't come as a shock to many. Another almost direct ripoff I heard on this came in some of the melodies they use from MGLA. All in all the better part of the album just drives through like a comatose patient. They play either shoegaze style drone or in a Darkthrone inspired black 'n roll. Overall it's very monotonous and very boring, with little variation other than perhaps when they turn up the delay knob all the way and scrape their picks along the strings to try and make people trip out.

If there is anything original about this band you could say that it's their ability to cloak their influences under loads of studio effects. The insane amount of guitar layering they've done to produce a warm washed out sound isn't a bad idea and so I will give them some credit. Ultimately what I dislike about this band as a whole is that they are extremely money minded and have built their fanbase through massive touring (with any and all takers), merchandising, marketing, networking etc. They have disgraced this music for exposure and to line their pockets. Rockstar attitudes and aspirations are not welcome in underground metal, especially black metal.

To sum up this album just take already worthless modern black metal, add a rock 'n roll producer and a few bluesy guitar lines to the mix and you've got Instinct: Decay. They try and pull themselves off as some type of front runners when they are just merely groupies, if that, of the metal genre. They have very well produced albums, which convey no emotion and nothing beyond the abundant superficiality that you find in this music today.