Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
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Music CD Cover Artist: Xasthur Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2006-09-12 Music Label: Hydrahead Records Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Subliminal Genocide Album
Free Music Review: CONTRA MUNDUM
Hit: 5 Stars
Two words can summarize Xasthur's Subliminal Genocide: Contra Mundum.
Every scream is a vitriolic spout of complete frustration, loneliness and contempt against this world. Within Malefic's damning screams is also a incredible sense of powerlessness, self-loathing and suicidal passion. While other black metal groups might express rage and hatred against the ideals of a world where fashion and falsity is more important than truth and reality, where the idiotic and mediocre are celebrated while the intelligent and skeptical are condemned as social parasites - Xasthur's expression of discontent is very personal in nature and has to do with the feeling of suffocation, isolation and desolation in enduring the tedious and cold nature of living in a diseased society.
Subliminal Genocide is a journey into the darkest excesses of the human consciousness. To me it seems Malefic awoke one day (every day) to find himself as a 'monstrous vermin' who must have been abandoned by humanity just as Samsa was. Malefic is Sisyphus fully aware that his life is being spent pushing boulders up hills only to have them roll down again. The sound of Subliminal Genocide is the Metamorphosis of man to vermin, a vermin that is hated, discarded or hunted by the hostile and indifferent culture that surrounds it. The sound you are hearing in this album is the stream of consciousness of that Vermin, of Samsa, of Sisyphus, the existential drama unfolding, the manifestation of fear, confusion and unmatched loneliness. We observe this consciousness when all hope is lost and the only solution to stem the constant feeling of desolation is voluntary death. Subliminal Genocide is a final and bitter reflection on this world, before the plunge into nonexistence inspired by overwhelming strangulation of conformity to mundane and grubby creeds.
Subliminal Genocide plays like an abysmal, melodic funeral march through winter, crafted by discordant guitars and the fading heartbeat of a mechanical drum machine which at times turns into a thunderous, muffled tachycardia. Over this horrible and depressing sound come the agony filled bellows of Malefic in some of the longest and most sorrowful screams you will hear in black metal. Beautiful and memorizing interludes are immediately suffocated by bassy blast beats and fuzzy, overwhelming guitar work. A claustrophobic, terrifying, shamanistic experience, Subliminal Genocide will defiantly raise the heart rate (if not kill you) if listened to properly on high quality speakers in complete darkness.
Within this existential dream, the subliminal genocide, Malefic can exact his callous revenge, but in the real world, he is powerless and alone.