Glice – Pyre

 

 

Glice – Pyre
Self released – 2021
Noise, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Metal, Soundscape, Drone
Rated: ***

We were honored to mention Glice’s earlier release Cielo back in 2017. An ambitious avant-garde noise album that evokes so many gloomy images and bleak emotions it is hard to listen to in your own cozy home. We suggested a landfill or a dark deserted metro station to truly enjoy Cielo. Well, the Amsterdam duo is back and have turned ambition into a huge understatement with their newest work Pyre. A double album that pounds you into submission with Part I, Cleave lasting 42 minutes and Part II, Coalescence 38 minutes. Blazing furnaces, ancient factories pounding steel and copper, hallucinations of machines stomping and hammering, battering and crushing. Sparks flying into the dark. Glints shooting into the night. And if you’re not seeing any of those infernal phantasmagorias, than it’s a gigantic cathedral made of magma and molten rock. Glice has indeed stepped up its game and delivers a marathon of distressing noise and oppressive drone. Co-produced by Lasse Marhaug; the artistic cinematic level is as intense as anything the man delivered himself and as jarring as all the great experimental works of art. For art it is and not for the feeble, the faint of heart or the man at the end of its tether. Pyre is for those that are tuned to the great and secret show, where memory, prophecy and fantasy, the past, the future and the dreaming moment in between are all one country, living one immortal day. To know that is wisdom. To use it, is art.  

(Written by JK)

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