Trees
Sickness In
Sickness In is the third album from Portlands most wretched, Trees. Following their similarly abject slabs of
feedback-doused horror and quasi-formless dirge Lights Bane and Freed of This Flesh on Crucial Blast, the two-song
full-length is a slowly rotting heap of droning, slow-motion death-doom riffs decomposing into clouds of black amplifier
hum, shrieking voices and tortured screams drifting against the glacial roar of smoking amp stacks and short-circuiting
hardware. This time around, the band drops some of their most leaden, majestic riffs yet into a slow-motion filth-storm.
Massive, saurian doom rhythms slip way out of the confines of anything resembling a "groove," deep into rumbling fields
of charred, ritualistic chanting and Abruptum-like states of psychotic noise. Opener "Cover Your Mouth" crashes in on an
avalanche of thrumming electricity and metallic noise; the crushing, abstract heaviness collapses in on itself while the
rhythm section accentuates the rumbling black mess with thunderous blasts of anti-propulsion. Trees have always had a
somewhat improvisational bent to their extreme doom-laden horror, but just when the track lies on the verge of a field
of pure drone, the band unleashes titanic, earth-scorching riffage. On "Perish," the resonant sound of throat singing
introduces a new wave of howling, ambient feedback and speaker-hiss, soon transformed into another twisted, agonized
pain-dirge as those tortured vocals scrape raw, pain-wracked screams that rise and fall behind the amorphous black
sludge and diseased drones..
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
15-04-2013
Label
Item-nr
441520
EAN
3481574415204
Availability
In stock