TRANSGRESSOR Ether For Scapegoat + Bonus Tracks 2xLP (ORANGE VINYL)

TRANSGRESSOR Ether For Scapegoat + Bonus Tracks 2xLP (ORANGE VINYL)

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(The Crypt)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
Now available on vinyl from The Crypt, issued in a limited edition of one hundred seventy-five copies in gatefold packaging, complete with all of the bonus tracks that appeared on the Memento Mori CD reissue as well as new liner notes from the band.
      An obscure slab of surreal early 90's Japanese doomdeath weirdness, reissued. 1992's Ether For Scapegoat was the only album to come from this Tokyo-based outfit, some of whose members would later go on to form the equally punishing Anatomia, another sludgy, Autopsy-influenced deathsludge outfit that I've been a big fan of. Originally released by the long-gone Dutch label Cyber Music and here reissued and re-mastered by the folks over at old-school death metal imprint Memento Mori, Ether For Scapegoat is one of the odder Japanese death metal albums I've come across, crawling through a black muck of that Autopsy-esque heaviness, echoing with putrid, yowling vocals, but the way these guys execute that slow, torturous death metal ends up getting scrambled through their rotted synapses into something choppier and more dissonant.
      The result is an unholy din of delirious, morbid death that opens with a haze of otherworldly orchestral drift and eerie voices before slipping into the dissonant filth of "Whiteness", which sees the band shifting from their lumbering, saturated doom-death into quick blasts of noisy thrash; at the same time, the song is weirdly constructed, with abrupt stops and starts, working on some kind of warped logic. That weird songwriting style gives this a fractured, fucked-up vibe, furthered by the bizarre bass guitar solos that pop up here and there, and the murky synthesizers that swell up out of the deformed lurch, offering washes of tortured choral horror that rise over the insane atonal guitar harmonies, sudden acoustic guitar breaks and their ghastly tremolo riffs. It's one of those killer older death metal albums that has a wrongness about it that can't get enough of. That atonality is all over this album, spiking the more straightforward death metal passages, the weird instrumental breaks and the confusing tangents that Transgressor wander off into. Fans of Incantation and the aforementioned Autopsy looking for something in a similar but stranger vein should certainly give this a listen, but I'd recommend it even more to those into the surrealistic labyrinths of Hallucinations-era Atrocity and Demilich's putrid angularity. Too bad they only did this one album; after this, they would polish off a bit of that dissonant weirdness with Anatomia, though that band certainly has its own moments of brain-warping power. The four bonus tracks included at the end of the disc are taken from an aborted EP and a couple of compilation appearances, and see the band tightening up their sound, though it's still got their trade mark quirks with the abrupt classical guitar breaks, those bizarre bass solos and the general angularity of their songs. Another killer death metal oddity from the Crypt/Memento Mori axis.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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