Bigstrut - Bigstrut

 

Bigstrut - Bigstrut
Malevolent Sound Studios - 2023
Noise Rock, Post-Hardcore, Experimental
Rated: ****

From the depraved metal minds of Nick Turner and Jared Moran, both of too many bands to count, comes an exercise in a different form of aural filth. Bigstrut is caustic. Bigstrut is foul. Bigstrut is noise rock of the most abrasive kind, sharing the DNA of its creators' various black and death metal projects but wholly its own monster. The duo lurch and lay waste through eight seething tracks, Turner's guitars squealing and crunching while Moran's careening drums and demonic vocals drive the onslaught home. Opener "Resolution" creeps forth with heaps of tension, exploding into a cacophony of sound and angular riffs that alternate between razor wire buildups and thunderous grooves. Highlight cut "House Clear" dives further into Jesus Lizard territory with abrupt, stop-start bursts and screeching licks overtop the crash of the drums. Apparent in "House Clear" and the rest of the album, Bigstrut's greatest trick is maintaining head-moving rhythms despite all the abrasive elements at play. One second Turner is torturing his guitar strings, and the next the band is chugging through a passage that would have a live audience bobbing and stomping along. No less moving, another album highlight is "Glutton", taking its time emerging at a doomier pace before pulsing riffs and clattering drums overtake the listener. Bigstrut is built of vile, raging emotions, and Turner and Moran capably twist that madness into a noise rock behemoth.

(Written by Kyle SB / Shastabeast)

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