Insanity reigns supreme in the Replicant song you’re about to hear, like a mad god gone berserk. It has the impact of a live power line thrashing unsuspecting pedestrians in a deluge, while teleporting their brains into a whipping centrifuge. Minds will be boggled, bones will be broken, blood spray will paint the walls.
Now that we have your attention, let’s fill in a bit of the back-story.
The song in question, “Orgasm of Bereavement“, is being presented today through a lyric video whose visuals are almost as startling and crazed as all the cavorting and colliding sounds. It’s from this New Jersey band’s third album Infinite Mortality, forthcoming on April 12th via Transcending Obscurity Records. As the label rightly proclaims:
Replicant take things further still with their new full length, finding ways to make their music even more convoluted and impactful while retaining their trademark dissonant and catchy sound.
They’ve found ways to add new aspects to it without hampering the momentum, constantly changing things up with the listener’s body still lashing uncontrollably. The songs veer off in their own unexpected, thrilling directions while upholding the inherent semblance of groove, only to reconnect later with greater force.
But let’s get back to the song we’re presenting today.
“Orgasm of Bereavement” features a multitude of wildly moving parts, executed with such speed and skill that fans of technical death metal will perk up. But unlike some bands in that genre jungle, Replicant are undeniably savage in their storming, as dedicated to clobbering and chaos as they are to giving minds a swift spin, and they bolt their escapades together with hammer-like grooves that are a vital part of what makes the song infectious as well as deranged.
As this convulsive rampage proceeds, the drumming by James Applegate constantly seizes attention, but everything else seizes attention too, thanks to the changing panoply of dissonant, devastating, and demented fretwork. The riffing blares, writhes, roils, swarms, and wails. Bombs go off. The bass surfaces, vividly bubbling as if musing at the madness.
Not to be outdone, the vocals are every bit as lunatic as the instrumentation, a cavalcade of bestial roars, unhinged howls, and throat-ruining screams. It would have been a sore disappointment if the vocals hadn’t been as sanity-blasting as everything else. No worry about that here.
Credit for this high-voltage thrill-ride goes to these folks, in addition to Mr. Applegate:
Mike Gonçalves – Vocals, Bass, Guitars
Pete Lloyd – Guitars, Synths, High-Frequency Transmissions
Itay Keren – Guitars, Vocals, Void Channels
Transcending Obscurity will release Infinite Mortality on CD, cassette tape, and digital formats, with a wide array of apparel and other merch. It all features the chillingcover art created by Alli Tuttle.
T.O. recommends the album for fans of Gorguts, Norse, Demilich, Negativa, Diskord, Wormed, Resin Tomb, Ulcerate, and Terra Builder. And in case your appetite hasn’t already been whetted enough, below you’ll find streams of two more previously released songs from the album, “Pain Enduring” and “Acid Mirror“.
PRE-ORDER:
Bandcamp – https://replicantband.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-mortality
Main Store – http://tometal.com
Europe Store – http://eu.tometal.com
US Store – http://transcendingobscurity.aisamerch.com
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