Hexxus - Tunguska (2016)
Are you fucking ready to make every hair on your body stand on end and melt any sense you ever held dear?
The
Alabama bred Hexxus has Billy Luttrel on guitar and vocals; Matt Marks
on drums and vocals; and Justin Regelin on bass and vocals. All three
have been busy in the world of doomy sludge for some time with different
projects such as Molehill, Hog Mountain, Charnel Ground, and Capsized.
Their amplifier worshipping sound has opened a riff of time and space
with their newest LP Tunguska.
"Andromeda" has a slow burning
beginning until the screeched out singing, which is a duty shared by
all three members, and doesn't let get go until you completely suffocate
from it. At ten minutes in length you can definitely see their
influences of Swans and Neurosis but with an even deeper sense of
aggression. That pure hatred that bleeds through to "Andromeda" doesn't
skip a beat with "The Great Migration" with the vocals just getting more
and more gnarled and twisted the guitars begin to swell and soar giving
more depths to the sound. Justin's bass beats grind together for "Cross
Bearer" as Billy's guitar attempts to keep everything in some
sort of order but somehow sounds more chaotic for it. The layers topple
over for a moment of clarity but that's quickly destroyed as the
screeched vocals are dubbed, echoed and sound tortured beyond belief. All sounds cease any sense of order in "Extinct is Instinct" as just pure hell
with every sound coming together to burn down any clarity in your head. An acid soaked guitar comes out of nowhere breaking up
the doom jarring all of your senses. "Tunguska" ends everything and
begins with a surprisingly clean production. Banging drums. Glorious
guitars. And even the still snarled vocals are tamer in nature. It's
almost like the monstrous band in reflecting on all its destroyed. All
it's burned. All it's killed. It's calm now. But then the second half
begins. Akin to a giant beast roaming the land for the next village to
destroy. The vocals come back harsher than ever. The instruments are
played in a primal nature. Then they slow down their sludgy guitars.
Each note slower and slower. Until there's nothing but silence.
~Richard
For Fans Of: Neurosis, Swans, The Melvins, Godflesh, Converge
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