#Subverse gift guide full#

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Only submissions of any other kind-physical, file transfer, FMA, Soulseek, etc.-will be accepted. **I will no longer review or link to any material hosted solely on Bandcamp. If youвЂ™d like to write a guest review or essay (or anything, honestly IвЂ™m not picky), just let me know.Д¬ontact/submit via for physical address. I almost always restrict coverage to things that have come out in the past two weeks or so.Д¬urrently the site is written by just me, Jack, but IвЂ™m open to expanding in the future. Also, I will be much more likely to review an album if it is not sent as a promo blast/press kit. However, I only review albums I like, and the вЂњreviewsвЂќ themselves (вЂњblurbsвЂќ might be a more accurate label, but god, what an awful word) are more intended to encourage discovery rather than to express my personal opinion.

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#Subverse gift guide full#

Dense mazes of tremolo guitars slicing with both single-note melodic riffs and painterly chord-sweeping thread with invigorating drum work thatвЂ™s precise enough to be a machine and full enough to be a real set, breaking into groovy, interlocking vamps on вЂњMounds of Dead SkinвЂќ and animalistic thrash stampedes on the sprawling вЂњCrevice in a Window to Reality.вЂќ ItвЂ™s all capped off by the immobilizing atmosphere of вЂњUnderside,вЂќ which true to its title feels like the tarry residue left over after the previous three tracks, the globs of darkness and shards of melody that have dripped to the bottom like an infernal grease trap. A feat in itself, even if the results werenвЂ™t stellar, but they are, which makes Subverse SiphoningВ even more impressive as an inaugural declaration. The fact that Subverse Siphoning of Suburbiadoes can perhaps be attributed to its extremely quick production process: GB, who contributes all of the instruments and vocals for their new project, composed, tracked, and then uploaded everything on this sizeable debut EP within 13 hours between November 4 and 5. There are exceptions of course-solo albums that sound like a mess whipped up by cohorts of five, ten, twenty ensemble performances with such disciplined tightness and technique that they end up surpassing what any one of the members could achieve on their own-but itвЂ™s enough of a trend for me to pick out, and itвЂ™s certainly rare to find a release that somehow hits both spots, especially on the вЂњsolitary creativeвЂќ side of things. Typically, the advantage of black metal music recorded by a single person over that played by a band of two or more people (or vice versa, of course) is the unitary of sonic and aesthetic vision that can often only originate from a singular source.