AntichildLeague – Entrenched Extreme – Obsessive Fundamental Realism – CD- 2020
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Over the last four years, ANTIchildLEAGE
has become an insanely violent, desperate louder version of itself. Recent
releases have demonstrated this with the choice of recent labels including Old
Europa Café and Obsessive Fundamental Realism documenting the newfound, intensified
extremity of the project. Since the gig promotion has stopped, the focus on the
work has brought out a focussed delivery that continues to deliver amazing
results.
Purge Humanity erupts and
churns as clanging repetition forms a base for echoed shouting and noises to
ejaculate all over the place. This is horrible noise that harks back to the
project’s impressive debut Hellworm and the nastier early days of Power
Electronics whilst sitting comfortably with the present-day dark side of the
genre that keeps the nastiness active (see label’s roster of artists). Everything
about this track resonates broken, haunted hatred, it is the artist’s sense of self
made into a barrage of noise.
Horror evoking sounds build
into Death Loves You More than God, the noise uses restraint to allow different
elements to take turns as the lead to make an entrance into the track’s
landscape. The pulling back of sounds makes for a minimal landscape that is a type
of noise ambient, any raise in sound creates walls of tension – this method is
toyed with to exaustion.
When I said Insanely earlier
it was for a reason, The Kiss is insane use of warped noise and vocal that
makes for a disturbing track. What is noise and what is ACL’s trademark inhuman
vocal is hard to make out as the noise seems to communicate and talk, this is
the artist mastering the medium to perfection. The vocals and the noise seem to
take turns to communicate to the listener – they are united in their purpose.
Raw, simple beat rhythms of old come
back for Paranoid, we are talking RJF (early) beats to the point where they add
a slight humour to the horror. The inhuman vocal starts shouting at the beats and
feedback. Whenever ACL uses beats now it is to rawer effect than earlier work,
making it do its’ job well. The vocal competes with itself further in the track
getting nastier with time.
A serious wall presents itself
on God never loved you, rich crackle runs over the back sounds, this quickly
transforms into Abuse where the noise is cut up into sections as the vocal shouts
orders at the noise. Abuse demonstrates a good use of raging distortion, but
the added nastiness of approach makes for a threatening display of Power
Electronics that keeps getting louder until it dies suddenly.
Those beats return for
Negative Control, a repetition forms as the shouts return. This hits you in the head, you can’t trance out to
it, the sound hates you and is literally a form of Negative Control. There is a
mid-track eruption that goes off until the reoccurring punishment returns. Brace
demonstrates further negativity with a discordant display of synthesizer torture,
this is a total shift in sound for more vocal terror to erupt within the nest
it forms. That voice is so distinctive I know where I am straight away. The electronics
here configure new ways to assault the listener, showing the diversity the
album uses whilst weaving everything in together.
Splutter walls form for Entrenched
Extreme, this really farts and churns into as a wall. Good textures show
themselves as the subtle shifts begin to take shape, this is a good wall that
in some ways pulls back offering some respite from what has just happened. Eerie
feedback plays off other eerie feedbacks and the respite feels like it never happened,
this is Born Again 3319. The layering of feedback increases in volume that
resonate and harmonise off each other. Chaotic noise quickly takes over as
Transcendental, a shifting distortion and feedback become one accelerating and
speeding until in faulters and dies.
Entrenched Extreme has a strong
variation of approaches amongst its’ 11 tracks. The history of
the project and the person make this album what it is, these are the themes continually
displayed. ACL is one of my favourite present day projects and Entrenched
Extreme is easily amongst if not the projects very best work, everything that is
great about ACL is displayed here and built upon. The evolution of the project continues
giving us a great album along the way.
Sonicdeathwishposse 2020.
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