Be ready for Estuarine’s wave of violence.
Created in 1990 by the american musician Hydrus (all instruments/vocals, Led by Serpents), the project is now based in Sweden. A first album in 2013 starts the machine, and today is the release of Nyarlathotep, the one-man band’s second EP.
What you have to know at first, is that you must expect everything with this project. From Grindcore to Black Metal hints to Progressive Death by going through parts melting technicality, Experimental and pure oppression. On the first seven tracks, pure violence strikes, between an overflowing Crawling Chaos, the schizophrenic Carriers of Shadows or the strange Prophecy Denial. Hooves of Oblivion also offers brutal and complex tones, like the dark and short Bloody-Nubbed Exile, or also Broken Subordinated, a quick but very technical song. The creative madness continues with The Audient Void, a tune that easily settles in Progressive Death Metal, while we go back to controlled chaos from beginning to end with Planes of Rotting Creation. Brutality, technicality, soaring and modern sonorities, Death Metal, Grindcore and oppressive ambience melt together and clash before closing the EP.
Regardless of whether you know Estuarine or not, the crash is near. Nyarlathotep is only ruled by its creator’s chaos and madness, letting its musical imagination run free.
80/100