Review: Hiding flowing melody underneath the blasting chaos of machine drums and relentless guitar fuzz, Baltak make "war metal" on the surface but underneath it encode a culture of melodic ideas. Large divisions of thought are performed by epic classicist keyboards or sweeping power chord riffs playing a backing melody to tones shifting for rhythmic emphasis. Shrieking vocals reverbed in two layers of torn throat flesh backlight the shape of each song while guitars scream a resonant blast. Ragged musical nihilism rages in the hands of competent design. Small divisions of thought are the details of variation in each riff pattern forming a whole over time. The fusion of large and small is the void driving the hunger of this album.
EVILMUSIC
metal, ambient, hardcore and noise music
Review: Hiding flowing melody underneath the blasting chaos of machine drums and relentless guitar fuzz, Baltak make "war metal" on the surface but underneath it encode a culture of melodic ideas. Large divisions of thought are performed by epic classicist keyboards or sweeping power chord riffs playing a backing melody to tones shifting for rhythmic emphasis. Shrieking vocals reverbed in two layers of torn throat flesh backlight the shape of each song while guitars scream a resonant blast. Ragged musical nihilism rages in the hands of competent design. Small divisions of thought are the details of variation in each riff pattern forming a whole over time. The fusion of large and small is the void driving the hunger of this album.
