Review: Steel Hook Prostheses - The Empirics Guild

 

The prolific Steel Hook Prostheses (J. Stillings, L. Kerr) have released another ominous album, "The Empirics Guild." Out now on the infamous Malignant Records.

Crawling and claustrophobic. Spacious and demented. Pained, tormented voices amongst electric tools and static rumbles. Ambient, in the darkest of ways. Fields of electricity and caustic percussion evoke the unsettled. The voices become garbled. Reverberating and liquifying. Dripping into cataclysmic synthetics. Scathing as a whole.

Elaborate layers of mechanical, haunting, landscapes. Foreboding whispers and trails of saturation. Spectral, disembodied. Crashing echoes, swarming broods. All driven with intent of capturing and regurgitating fears. Memorable discomfort is apt. Cavernous depths allow rumination of the sonic layers and interchanging textures. Entangling torrents of man-made nightmares. All-absorbing and endlessly captivating shadows of auditory madness. Nearing hallucinogenic and ethereal. Undeniable and utterly dismal. A perfect amalgamation of forlorn distress and impassioned catharsis.

Available at: http://www.malignantrecords.com/