Necroviolence - Tears of Change.

Necroviolence – Tears of change.

https://gatesofhypnos.bandcamp.com/album/tears-of-change

https://necroviolence.bandcamp.com/releases

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCANiZ5jx1p_QNmMNlmal8MA

https://www.discogs.com/artist/9447961-Necroviolence

https://www.discogs.com/label/1768164-BeTon-Raw

     1.       Bear it, my beauty.

     2.       Grave Games.

     3.       High Functioning Sadist.

     4.       Hear Murmur.

     5.       Tortured Orgasm.

     6.       Feral Angel.

     7.       Cryptid Tongue.

     8.       Fleeting Essence.

     9.       Melankoli.

     10.   Sublevel Psyche.

     11.   The Price of Being Feared.

     12.   Black Vapor.

     13.   The Pale Executioner.

     14.   Sea of Sedatives.

     15.   Manipulation Therapy.

     16.   Degeneration of the Capillaries.

     17.   Suicide Crescendo.

     18.   I Don’t Want Healing, I Want vengeance.

     19.   Tears of Change.

Necroviolence is a key player amongst the new young generation of American Death Industrial artists pursuing the genre today and Tears of Change is the latest release by the project. Necroviolence has been active since 2020 and linked to projects such as Atrax Hex and 1940s Nihilist. The work is heavily influenced by early Power Electronics and Italian Death Industrial. There have been 23 Necroviolence recordings including albums, splits and Eps on labels several labels including: Rat Covenant, BeTon Raw and Death in Venice productions.

I am immediately impressed by the Moog resonations on Bear it, My Beauty as the drone shatters and the gasping vocal forms a rhythm for the sound to interact on. Graves Games radiates mournfulness, the vocal is drenched in the noise and becomes a noise itself. Much of the work commandeers slow but abrasive electronics that at first appear to be shifting through random patterns of noise with the vocals being the consistent that binds these sections into tracks. However, the album quickly gains a clearer focus and the electronics are reigned in and operated under tight control with focussed synthesizer work leading the way. The aggression intensifies massively on High Functioning Sadist, the vocal works at the front of the work instead of being buried within it. There are slightly psychedelic elements in earlier tracks, but here they are allowed to branch out and lead. Hear Murmur, revels in fractured sound allowing fragments of cracked sound to form a violent tapestry until the synth drones eclipse it out. Haunted rage is the main vibe of Tortured Organism, I like how the vocal cuts into the noise, shouts its’ diatribe and slower drones and chimes form a bleak meditation until the vocal re-enters and rages over everything, beckoning further destructive noise to the track.

Feral Angel has a highly amplified, broken sound that projects a feeling of warped insanity. I can imagine with the rage pitched right that this would be amazing live as the vocal is amplified by the noise.  Churning drones and screeching hiss square up to each other to form Cryptid Tongue, this sounds like 1970s sci fi film ear torture – simple elements combined to make effective work. Fleeting Essence strips the range of noises down to create murkier ambient tracks. Melonkoli continues to keep things minimal to allow space between the noises so they can resonate and warp themselves effectively. Conflicting samples and springier electronics form Sublevel Psyche this allows for longer periods of noise to play out whilst weaving in and out of the vocal.

A focussed, aggressive sound erupts from The Price of Being Feared, the synthesisers are given space to pulsate and resonate, whilst the vocal mostly allows itself to slip away from Black Metal screaming into screwier, fucked-up territory.  Black Vapor and The Pale Emperor also allow less elements in so the electronics and distortion can play off each other for longer periods of time. On Both tracks there are early Earth like guitar chords like progressions buried in there, I like that element.  A slower, infected territory is explored on Sea of Sedatives with the main element being the wailing feedback that all the samples and vocals work around. The vocal is fractured and spluttered across the track and seems to bond with the distortion as if communicating a broken signal of noise.

Wailing drones repeat mercilessly to form Manipulation Therapy. A combination of different, shifting noise assaults kicks off to give us Degeneration of the Capillaries. This breaks off at different times to go into passages of headache inducing psychedelia to eventually reach death by feedback. Pulsating drones and combative hiss battle in Suicide Crescendo, this moves on to shifts of focussed passages of sound quite quickly melding many methods together over four minutes. I Don’t Want Healing, I Want Vengeance uses similar shifts but with more subtlety, sounds shift across passages to weave into other displays of noise to produce a Death-like display of hatred. I like how the electronics seem to kick off here as if racing towards a meltdown. A loop of distant folk music that is Tears of Change leads the album to its end.

Tears of change is due to be released on CD on BeTon (Raw). This is a good album, an impressive full display of the project. It has also served as a strong introduction to the project for me.

Choppy Noodles 2023.