Review 2554 : Hierarchies – Hierarchies – English

Welcome to Hierarchies in the Death Metal world.

Created by Nicholas Turner (guitar, Acausal Intrusion), Anthony Wheeler (bass, Hollowed Idols) and Jared Moran (drums/vocals, Acausal Intrusion), all members of Dwelling Below, the band signs to Transcending Obscurity Records for the release of Hierarchies, their debut album.

The album kicks off with Entity, a tortured dissonant first composition offering a hazy mix conducive to touches of violence as well as an oppressive atmosphere where complexity takes center stage, though there’s still room for growls. Black and Death Metal influences mingle in the chaos, joining Consecrate Phenomenon where they express themselves once again, offering intriguing harmonics and unexpected jolts. The track ends in a similarly unhealthy way, but is followed by Dimension, which I’d almost call jovial, or at least more energetic, and which strikes me as the album’s most accessible track, not hesitating to place piercing leads throughout before finally crawling slowly towards its end. Twilight Tradition takes its place with an almost gentle introduction, but the vocal parts and darkness quickly resurface to hit us in rhythm with their madness before giving way to Abstract, which clearly won’t be any more delicate. There’s a moment’s hesitation in the middle of the track, but the bursts of disharmony start up again and go off in all directions, before being replaced by Complexity Parallels, which remains in much the same vein, offering dark, disquieting touches at will. Subtraction takes over with a slightly more haunting approach at first, then finally just as thick and protean, blending all its influences in a hellish march then Vultures finally descends upon us with beastly growls, welcome moments of gentleness and waves of devastating raw power, closing the album as haphazardly as it began.

Is this a true revival of Dissonant Death, or a deformed heavy imbroglio? I don’t know. But I can tell you that Hierarchies succeeds in giving coherence to the sonic orgy that is Hierarchies, and that the album will divide its audience.

80/100

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