Bloody hell. Akarusa Yami know how to attack the listener’s senses. Their brand of industrial metal isn’t the kind you’d give yourself whiplash headbanging to: more the kind that would induce a seizure. Jolting, jarring slabs of overloaded guitar collide every which way on the EP’s opener, ‘Life, The Venomous Way’. Some space-age bleepy doodles bubble into the fray about halfway through the track before a guitar break bails in and adds to the frenzied cacophony. The multitracked vocals come at every angle, screaming, shouting, barking and droning, sometimes simultaneously. The effect is utterly bewildering – and there are still another five tracks remaining.
Blastbeats and chugging guitars diverse and reconverge unpredictably as they build a maelstrom of Meshuggah-inspired metal chaos. There are times when their technical competence doesn’t quite equal their ambition: never mind cramming myriad influences and ideas into each track, this ‘12-Legged Industrial Noise Unit From Nottingham’ shoot their fireworks in all directions at once. The resultant racket is dizzying, and frankly, it’s left me in a state of shock and I’m not sure if I’ll ever recover.
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