Nihilosaur-Icebreaker Hope

Track 1. Poza Bunkrem- A quick and yet muffled approach with multiple sound's thrown at you is the start of the album. A clattering beat, a low pitched hum which I assume is a bass guitar perhaps, and possibly even some sort of vocals, though they are not very audible. The music if that's what you want to call it finally stops and gives way to a thick wall of distortion. The drums are quite powerful and tight. The riffs though are a bit muffled a dark and delicious, they thump about like pissed off monsters. Vocal's though you can not tell what's being said, there's a cool conveyance here. There's a very eclectic yet bad ass syncopation. Very odd, but interesting guitar solo. The music starts up again, continuing it's essence of dark psychedelic fucked up nature true. A very catchy beat.

Track 2. SexSexSex- The song begins immediately without a melody lead in, on a beat that's just sort of random. It has a very dreadful feeling about it. It almost feel's as if it's trying to get it's bearings about it, it finally does. There is some stop and go action with the music, when you finally get that this is just going to be a mind fuck of a piece of music. Really liking the drums, vocals and other instruments are present in the mix, though the vocals sound like their almost somewhere else, cool music thought still. A haunting yet slow groove which could stain the skies with something crude, and rapidly defiant. The music does drag a bit, but it quickly get's its legs and it gets interesting when it runs into another direction with the changed syncopation, slow, but there is some cool head banging stuff here, not a lot, but yes some. I actually think now that this slow groove works quite well with this music, liking thus far and totally get what's going on here, long drawn out dramatic yet in a crazed cool fashion. The music begins to fade away, with bad ass beat being the last thing you hear.

Track 3. Untitled_1- More strange noises that you can not begin to decipher begin this song, well maybe just a simple beating sound. A riff sounds as if it's attempting to flame up, but not really going anywhere. The music just dies right there, this track makes absolutely no fucking sense.

Track 4. Love I TheTimeOfAlgorthyms- A subtle beat backed by a very bass laden voice begins this track, though with a muffled quality. You can actually tell what the vocalist says though faintly. This track seems mindless and quite boring. I really do not see what's very entertaining about this. The lame yet subtle beat finally fades into the track after the vocals whispers lines that seem utterly meaningless.

Track 5. Androgin- A more interesting beat begins things here, but a strange distortion that almost sounds alien consumes the track, a harmonized twin joins in on the action quickly. The music finally approached a point of some truly electrifying metal, a slow yet brutal and cool ass groove show there cards, and mighty they are, though muffled a bit and slow. Vocals are quite powerful here. The music almost feel's like a random conversation of crazed corruption, meant to fuck your mind silly with a not so well augmented sound. A solo can be heard tearing the track up, though it's distant like a train falling of the tracks and setting a fire half of humanity, though it's creatively done, to say the least. The groove of the music, though slow, it's eclectic and interesting. The music plays on like this for a bit, but it becomes quite mind numbingly insane but dies upon a well triggered pulse of tasty insanity, odd to say the least.

Track 6. TheMovementOfVenus- We are treated to some mighty riff's in the opening of this one. They march about with an unforgiving presence that screams volumes of their torturing tone. The music slows down enough to establish a beat and some interesting melodies quickly. The syncopation is halfway entertaining, a continued muffled quality is in the mix. Though vocals are quite present they still sound a bit distant and outside of things, I still think they are ok. The music has a very eclectic yet heavy stop and go feeling about it, intelligent, crude, yet it hammers in your mind it's message. Some truly psychedelic parts stammer into the mix making you ponder your own sanity. Certain guitar riffs, notes sound so off, your not sure if it's on purpose or some possible artistic expression. The groove of the music alternates between something very slow yet with an aggression that could kill, the all powerful drums drive the message home with a thick cut of fuck you to the throat. Every once in a while those dangerous as hell riffs splinter and cut you without remorse, some good and sickening material here though. The music finally stops on the powerful echo of the dynamic drums.

Track 7. Melancholyism- Instantly your thrown into the slow burning fire. Yet again another impressive and tight drum beat, timing has never been a question. Guitar riffs that feel as is they were soaked up from the depths of hell itself. The vocals are present yet still have that echoed feeling, not a big fan of that. Interesting syncopation. Killer riffs, alternate back into the mix, giving you a slice of expressive freedom. The song begins its slow yet eclectic groove again, but it sounds like it's a very careful march of metal here. The riffs get hot and just right, the music feels as if it's coming together perfectly to sum up the album in just the right fucked up way, you begin to grasp just a tiny bit of what this band is trying to say here musically, crazy and fucked up? Yes, but it's still partially interesting, and quite creative. I would not say this band totally sucks, nor are they perfect. There is some good material, as well as mediocre material here as well. There is also some music here that I could not stand listening to, and I even wondered why in the hell waste time on tracks that were a minute or less, what the fuck is with that. I also had an issue with some of the muffled nature of the music, but I guess that's to be expected with music that has influences of a psychedelic nature. Adding it all up, I see this album as a total mixed bag. Some great material, some mediocre stuff, and some total wastes of fucking time.

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