Tectonics

Taken from the band's main website: "p.h.o.b.o.s. : unknown anguish, son of the god of war, or chaotically revolving martian satellite ?"

P.H.O.B.O.S. is a band that has one objective; to kill you. It wants you dead. If you can imagine a smoke-filled blackened post-apocalyptic planet earth where it's been charred due to a massive 100 year thermo nuclear war where the clouds have been filled with the black ash, smoke, and soot of a once-thriving planet filled with living species, now all that lays is twisted metal, a few skeletons scattered across the wasteland and all H2O completely gone, then my friend that is what this band has succeeded in doing.

Aside from the metaphors that P.H.O.B.O.S. conjures up, musically they are a different breed of Industrial. No nice electronic arpeggios. No cheesy techno beats. No catchy little dance tunes. No, this is the type of Industrial that is akin to that of the bleak sound scape of David Lynch's "Eraserhead." I may have to disagree with the label Metal-Archives.com has given them because Industrial Doom is almost too lite for this band to hold. The Doom part especially due to the fact that from what I hear is a freaky combination of the malevolence of Godflesh, the grind of early Swans, the distortion of Skullflower, and a little bit of the Young Gods thrown into the mix. The Doom is just natural because the tempo never goes past 4X4 playing and if you know the bands above then you'll understand when I mean about it being natural. There's no Black Sabbath riffs going on here....yes you could say, but due to the monolithic atmosphere it's just going to come out one way or another. I honestly don't see any way these guys could be melodic. And the vocals? They could be human. But I don't know any human who could scream with seething, burning, snarling rage like Frederic Sacri. Really scary shit.

It's really hard to pin-point certain songs on "Tectonics" because it's a series of having Mike Tyson constantly knocking you on your ass. When one round ends, another begins and you just have to take it. Of course certain songs hit harder than others which makes it even more difficult to listen to. The only song I could possibly begin to even go near is "Gregarious"...if you can make it past that song without running away, whimpering and whining like a stray dog with it's tail tucked between it's legs and one of them broken then you definitely more endurance to listen to the rest of the album. Abandon all hope ye who enter.