Interstice (studio album)
by Knoll

From Mercury 05/26/2021 01:26 | #270063

Just wanted to drop by and remind everyone that this is still, indeed, the best album released this year. Ina fight, at the very least, it would win against any other album. This is like the Wolverine of 2021 albums.

From Mercury 03/02/2021 18:25 | #266878

(One of the best Grindcore/Deathgrind/mildly Mathcore albums I've heard. A brilliant, intense, unique debut album that absolutely blows me away.)

This album is just....its awesome. Its so friggin intense, bloody, screeching, brutal, dramatic, and (again) intense that by the end of it I was sweaty and raw and felt a feeling somewhat similar to that feeling after a hard work out, that exhausted yet accomplished and invigorated feeling. Now as I listen again, I hear more details, more static-filled moments of sonic exploration, more moments of divergence from intense grind into writhing and noisy bits of utter hate and destruction, and holy shit, it gets better as I listen more.

The genres are somewhat straight forward in that its Grindcore with Deathgrind growling and the crazy fast time signature switch ups and somewhat cerebral musical elements of Mathcore. The production is so staticy and intense and at times lo fi that it may be a bit tough to get into for most people (especially if you personally just aren't a huge fan of the noisier, screeching insanity of grindcore, which may be most people who read this). BUT if you love this variant of extreme music, if you love Pig Destroyer or if you love classic Terrorizer or Insect Warfare or if you love both straightforward screechy grindcore mixed with more intense sludgy slowed down growled deathgrind elements (really a brilliant mix of those 2 elements here) and you love just being beaten the shit out of for a little while every once in awhile, I know you'll enjoy this as I have.

I love this fucking album tbh. Its exciting especially cuz this is a debut album and an insanely accomplished debut at that. These Memphis, Tennessee boys are onto something that I just love and I look forward to listening to their music as it releases in the future. Easily an album of the year candidate thus far for me.

I mean damn, the riffage and the intensity and the brilliant melding of vocal styles and the power of "Inherent of Life" alone makes this a must listen. And such moments of brilliant insanity are all over this gem.