UNEARTHLY TRANCE / PRIMITIVE MAN split
Relapse Records
Here's a split release with one band I've always liked and one which mostly has bored me over the years. Now past readers will easily figure out of to whom I like and do not. But for you now well I'll digress. This release starts off with a minute long intro which supposedly has both bands collaborating on. It's just a wash of noise which bleeds into PRIMITIVE MAN's first of two tracks, namely "Naked". This cut lumbers onward like a drunken SUNN O))) until this Denver sludge trio kicks into gear with their crush kill and destroy signature style.
Their second cut, "Love Under Will", is a subdued piece starting off as echoing extracts to what you might hear if they were going full bore. Think of it as listening to PRIMITIVE MAN while on Thorazine at the precise moment of your death from cancer. Is that a good thing? Nah it ain't, in fact it's kinda boring. I believe these are throwaway cuts from 2017's Caustic full length.
Next up are four cuts from UNEARTHLY TRANCE who most readers should know I really like. Also I've made it perfectly clear in the past that I like their short form releases (EPs and split releases) more than their full lengths. Looking back at their last full length, 2017's Stalking The Ghost, I thought four out of the eight cuts were good. On here their first two cuts, "Mechanism Error" and "Triumph" come at you like a filthy distorted sludgey doom version of HELMET. I've always wanted to use that analogy comparison because it fits.
Third cut "Reverse the Day" starts off great in a sludgey grunge of distorto filth reminiscent of late 80's / early 90's noise rock. My favorite cut on here but then it ends or better yet segues into a "418" which is just noise distortion and painful screamed vocals. Basically it's filler. But hey in the end it's the UNEARTHLY TRANCE tracks that make this a must have for you doom and destruction fans.
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