Deathstench "Expel(s) the Fleeting Husk" on New, Terrifying Single
I won’t pretend to know much about “death industrial,” a musical style to which California experimentalists Deathstench call their own, but I do know a little about fear. I’m afraid of a lot of things, I guess, and the horrible, agitated feeling I get in my stomach when I encounter them is a terror all its own. Deathstench knows about fear, too, but instead of feeling fear, they craft it; the dull pain in the pit of your gut, the static in your brain, the flight urge, it’s all here in their new song “Expel the Fleeting Husk.”
An abstract composition, “Expel the Fleeting Husk” relies on a churning, ebbing noise loop beneath vocalist John Paul Whetzel’s distant rasps and growls. Percussive elements find their way into the mix in the form of hard-panned cymbals, making for a powerful and vast sound design. I can’t really say I know much about noise, and it really isn’t a style in which I really dabble at all, but listening to Deathstench’s newest effort, which is slated to be released on a new compilation (Stages of Decay) today, filled me with dread. I guess that’s the point, isn’t it?
Watch a video for “Expel the Fleeting Husk” below.
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What feels so completely ominous about the video for Expel The Fleeting Husk is not what the members of DEATHSTENCH permit us to see and hear as part of their arcane ritual, but rather that we may be glimpsing that which they have manifested. With their guidance of sinister hissing and surreal visions, dark things are evoked in one’s mind like illusory hauntings of a fever dream. Invocations have been performed. Dreamlike and frightening, magickal excursions bleed into altered states of consciousness. What chthonic spectres have been conjured; are now ready to be fed. Some things are better left sleeping. Physical incarnation of Expel The Fleeting Husk will be found on Black Goat Records’ Stages of Decay, a punishing 46 minute death industrial compilation of 8 heavy hitters spanning decades of crushing experimental music including Gnaw Their Tongues, Moonbeam Terror and Dodsang Tempel. Out next week.
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Stages of Decay is out today on Black Goat Records.
