ALUK TODOLO — Occult Rock (review)

ALUK TODOLO — Occult Rock album cover Album · 2012 · Metal Related Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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Occult rock...

Genre: avant-garde metal



The album opens in perhaps the most minimalistic fashion ever with the the band grinding away at one chord with a simple blastbeat as company. Gradually a bit of variation is thown into the picture, and the track morphs towards something more akin to black metal with dissonant tremolo-picked figures, but this is combine with some rather spacy effects. If your brain is not fried after ten minutes of this stuff, then you are qualified to enjoy the rest of the album.

The second track is heavier and combines noise rock with doom metal, eventually taking on a more psychedelic character, before a repetitive blastbeat section kicks in which itself morphs into noise rock. The third track documents experimentation with drone rock, which also spills over into the fouth and fifth tracks which do, however, feature experimentation with various drumbeats and noise effects. The sixth track features a number of minimalistic passages and somehow reminds me of The Pixies at times. The seventh track is another minimalistic affair in which the rhythm section offers a basic drive with noisy but atmospheric guitars on top. The eighth track is in the heavy department, featuring elements of doom and drone metal.

Overall, this is an interesting album which combines noise and atmosphere. But it is not an album you would listen to for mere pleasure. It is challenging in a number of ways and features elements that border on being unpleasant. A must for fans of avant-garde metal, "Occult Rock" is not for everybody thugh.
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