When we see the name Resin Tomb the first words that come to mind, based on the previous releases of these Australians, are “bombardment”, “fragmentation”, and “incineration” — music used as weaponry — followed by thoughts of “agony” and “mental breakdown”. “Hellish terrors” is another phrase we’ve used in descriptions of their previous noise.
Of course, most surface-dwellers would recoil from anything so-described. In our case, it just makes us eager for more — and more is what we will have when Transcending Obscurity Records releases this harrowing band’s debut album Cerebral Purgatory next month, to help usher in the New Year with ruination.
So far, two tracks from the new album have surfaced (“detonated” is probably a better word), and today we’ve got a third one for you, one that is indeed destructive but one that also brings shivering chills. Its name is “Purge Fluid“.
The drums and bass sound like mortar fire at the beginning of this new song, but the guitars sound like demented whining as the dissonant notes swirl and throb. Just in time for the advent of raw, scalding screams, the tremolo’d riffing also begins to resemble a bestial feeding frenzy.
Soon after, the music erupts in a fusillade of blasting percussion, a paroxysm of deranged fretwork, and even more unhinged screaming, interspersed with heaving bass notes and lurching drum-beats. As the song nears the end, the writhing guitar contortions channel wailing and tones of misery above rhythmic strafing runs.
Madness reigns throughout the entire song, but it’s madness of different shades — the delirium of violence and the fracturing of sanity caused by terrible despair.
From that song alone you’ll learn that Resin Tomb‘s genre ingredients are fluid. They’ll amalgamate dissonant death metal, grindcore, and blackened sludge in whatever ways best suit their ruinous purposes.
You’ll get an even better idea of that if you listen to the first two songs from the new album that detonated earlier — “Human Confetti” (where the band work in disturbing episodes of frightening hallucination) and “Dysphoria” (which is stunningly catastrophic on multiple levels). We’ve left streams of both of those below.
RESIN TOMB:
Matt Budge (Consumed) – Vocals
Perry Vedelago (Siberian Hell Sounds) – Drums
Brendan Auld (Descent, Feculent) – Guitar
Matt Gordon – Guitar
Mitch Long (Consumed) – Bass
T.O. will release Cerebral Purgatory on January 19th on CD, cassette tape, and digital formats, with lots of apparel and other merch. All of it features the fantastically horrifying cover art of Mitchell Nolte (Baest, Werewolves, and many more).
T.O. recommends the album for fans of Terra Builder, Replicant, Vermin Womb, Norse, Spurn, and Michel Anoia.
PRE-ORDER:
https://resintombaus.bandcamp.com/album/cerebral-purgatory
http://transcendingobscurity.aisamerch.com/
http://eu.tometal.com/
RESIN TOMB:
http://facebook.com/resintombdeath