Expected by some, unknown by others, DSKNT is back.
Created in Switzerland in 2013 by Asknt (instruments, Shrooms Circle) and Quasar (vocals, Dominion of Suffering), the band reveals us Vacuum y-Noise Transition, its second album.
I personally discovered DSKNT with this album, so I had no a priori, no expectation, no fear. Since this introduction named Spin, the oppression feeling increases. Suddenly, the duo begins. Their wall of dissonant sound nailed me to the ground during the whole album. And when I say “wall of sound”, I’m not talking of a single uninteresting blast beat of forty minutes, the band is light years away from this. Riffs chain to each other without break, between this weighing rhythmic as black as a dead man soul, those cavernous howlings as morbid as a crime scene and this as cold ambience as a cold-storage. When I first heard it, I was literally caught by this suffocating wave that buffets us from track to track with an incredible continuity. However, after trying again, I had the same feeling of continuous choking, of laceration by a cosmic dissonance and of assault by howlings from hereafter. No break, not a single moment of respite between the first and the last part of Deconvolution, not a single second to catch our breath again on Transition and even less possibility to notice light during O-Noise. The experience slowly ends with Spore, an as mysterious and strange outro as the introduction.
Words are sometimes not enough to describe the experience DSKNT offers. Vacuum y-Noise Transition instantly teleports us in another dimension, made of dissonance and pure blackness, before releasing forty minutes after, without any kind of mercy.
95/100