On the exact opposite end of the scale are the Greymachine and their new album Disconnected which is a brutal and ugly album. How ugly? Imagine a low flying plane cruising over the remnants of a burned out city filled with desperate people killing each other for basic survival. Take that image and ugly it up and you might touch upon the sonic castration that is Greymachine.
Greymachine - Disconnected
This is not music for the lighthearted this is the stuff nightmares are made out of. Droning soundscapes layered into weighted guitar riffs, feedback and general noise. This is the dark underbelly of the avante garde.
It’s no surprise that Greymachine operate this way since it features Justin Broderick and Diarmuid Dalton of Godflesh and Jesu fame as well as Aaron Turner of Isis and Old Man Gloom and Dave Cochran of Head Of David, God and Ice. Each of these musicians has mastered the art of turning extreme music on its ear and when they combine forces the results are like a bad car wreck. You want to turn away but you just can’t.
Continue reading: Double Play: Baroness and Greymachine – CraveOnline.com – Page 2.
Greymachine’s Disconnected is available for streaming on the band’s website.
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