Friends of musical propriety, fear before Byonoisegenerator!
Just by its name alone, the band led by Tim (vocals), Hal° (guitar), M1t (bass), Sh3la (saxophone), and NOx (drums) is impressive, but wait until you hear Subnormal Dives, their new album, released in cooperation with Transcending Obscurity Records…
First step: understand and get to grips with the band’s style, known as JazzGrind. By breaking down this neologism, you can easily understand the two main elements, and you might think that the two are clearly opposed, and you’d be right. Yet, through some kind of magic or secret technique, it works. The band shows us this from the very first track, Eb(D#), by allowing the saxophone to join in the organized carnage at times, bringing a touch of noise, but also by closing the track before giving way to the equally crazy IQ69Exaltations, where we are often confronted with disturbing dissonance. The moments of pure violence are perfectly mastered, and even if the characteristic mix is present, we often feel assaulted by the rhythm, just like on NULL.state = PERMANENT; return VOID; where the carnage continues unabated, including piercing harmonics to complete the imbroglio. The final is once again focused on calmer tones, but NoSuccessToday! plunges us back into this hurricane of savagery and assaults us before giving way to UVB-76, which takes over with a similar objective between groove and uncontrollable eruptions. The quintet allows us a short respite at the beginning of LoveChargedDiveBombs, but quickly returns to the fray with these disturbing and elaborate tones that explode everywhere between the lighter passages that the band always fills with airy harmonics, then I’mNot20Anymore (21Ne) resumes the carnage with ever more coherent incoherence. Hostilities resume on 4-HO-DMTNzambiKult with even more tortured leads, but also and above all with the few crystalline touches that inhabit the breaks between two sessions of cacophony. Then with deBroglieNeverExisted, which gives the saxophone the opportunity to become as disturbing as it is haunting, alternating between the two personalities with rare versatility. The punishment ends on 5mgInspiredVibes, the last composition, which begins intriguingly but quickly returns to its old ways, showering us with convoluted riffs before finally giving us back our mental freedom.
After finishing listening to Subnormal Dives, I still don’t know how to interpret what I’ve heard. My mind doesn’t know if Byonoisegenerator is a group of geniuses or a jumble of technicality without rhyme or reason. All I know is that the band has an audience ready to follow them in their madness!
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