SET Upheaval Of Unholy Darkness LP

SET Upheaval Of Unholy Darkness LP

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(Nuclear War Now! Productions)
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  Upheaval Of Unholy Darkness is the debut album from Set, the crushing death metal project from the multi-talented Chad Davis (aka Drathrul), who has been involved in everything from cult doom metallers Hour of 13, legendary black metallers Demoncy and psych heavies U.S. Christmas to his solo death industrial outfits Subklinik, Mortuor and Torturecide. Following up the Dominus Profanum demo from 2008, Set's first full length delivers monstrous, profane death metal laced with some very cool moments of offbeat melody, interesting use of noisy textures and effects, and excellent use of dark ambient sequences that are handled a lot more deftly than most bands of this ilk. Plastered in images of religious idols and impressionistic scenes of Christian worship ripe for desecration, Upheaval opens with an awesome cosmic-crypt intro of choral voices hovering in a haze of sepulchral murk on "Accursed Goathead Son", as distant tribal drums pound slowly in the distance. As this dank, moldy atmosphere continues to unfold and spread like an oily black stain across the album, this intro transforms into something a lot less "dungeon synth" and a lot more like some amazing low-fi shoegaze, the warbling male voices shifting into higher, more angelic wailing bathed in hiss. And then the whole band suddenly crashes in, the sound suddenly swept up into a ferocious storm of cavernous blackened death metal, murky droning guitars buzzing and swarming within clouds of oppressive reverb, the drumming fast and aggressive, the song shifting through a variety of parts, becoming more complex and dramatic as it builds into a powerful black blast.
  From there, Upheaval slips into passages of crushing deathly doom, slow motion cavernous deathcrawl adrift on waves of rumbling double bass and those ghastly, eternally echoing screams. Davis handles all of the instrumentation (a performance that becomes all the more impressive upon subsequent spins of the album), while Kevin Rita handles those horrific, abstract vocals; these guys pull off a classic death metal sound here, but it's riddled with some very cool quirks that keep this from getting too predictable; the songs are long, complex nightmares of intricate arrangements and baroque riffs, and man, the riffs are excellent, blasts of killer blackened crush crawling out of the shadows. And then there's the intro to "Blood of Apostles", which sounds like a fragment of an old Klaus Schulze track. The album has a lot of that stuff, unexpected moments of strange and out of place brightly lit major key melody and off-kilter riffs. The title track in particular betrays Davis's background in morbid soundscapery, what with its extended intro of murky abstract black noise and distant screams roiling beneath rumbling synthesizer drones, a kind of pitch-black kosmische nightmare that drifts slowly through the ether before dropping into a final blast of seething, epic death metal; that final riff is absolutely ferocious, and when it finally disappears back into that swirling black ambience that closes the album, all malevolent synths and orchestral menace and swarming distant choral horror, the effect is riveting.
   This first edition of Upheaval comes with an embroidered patch and a large vinyl sticker.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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