Joyous news from the music world of 2011: it's back. The horrifying disembowelment of rock has made its resurgence, and recent albums from Dope Body, Pre, Pygmy Shrews and White Suns are willing to testify to this. Hell, even Arab on Radar have announced an excitingly undeviating reincarnation. Amidst this new wave of discord, what idiosyncrasy does recent Skin Graft signees Satanized display that is specific to them only?
For a group comprised of the barest essentials-- vocals, guitar, bass, and drums-- they function like no other quartet associated with such instruments. The guitar embodies both mutilated steel shards and virtuous, jazz-like solos. Both components of the rhythm section have no relation to one another: the bass, an incoherent, stop-start warble, and the percussion, a bombardment of contrasting tempos. Muffled beneath the noise are agonizing wretches, with only amorality not to be lost in translation.
While these traits may be of very meager distance from conventions, how Satanized organize each barrage is of equal significance. "Arnaud de Verniolle" leaps from enveloping blast-beats to incomprehensible deconstruction spotlighting the guitar's angular sweeps. Following a choral drone, all members twitch like malfunctioning machinery on "Raise the Flaccid Horn", where the title becomes a mantra shouted among a blur of cymbal pitter-patter and ticking harmonics. Instances on "Clause of Nature" and "Pain is My Barometer" allow the boundary between off-kilter and on-point to be obscured beyond cognizance.
Satanized have adorned their 2007 debut Sickness and Hellth: The Secular Chansons of... with much-needed embellishments, for the no-frills passage of works such as "Purple Pickle" have been eradicated on Technical Virginity. In contrast to many, the band has expressed more than a mere reiteration of forerunners. Their impact may be lost amongst the newly formed sea of abrasive bands, but Satanized bring this subgenre into more morbid and disfigured territory.
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