Dekonstruktor – Death Beat

 

 

Dekonstruktor – Death Beat
Addicted Label – 2024
Doom, Death, Metal, Noise, Sludge, Industrial
Rated: ***

There’s always a slight feeling of trepidation whenever I start listening to an album labeled as death-doom or experimental black metal or a mix of them all. I often feel less equipped to deal with that sort of aural devastation. My tastebuds are more accustomed to the less harsh albums floating around the heavy underground. And I reckon a few of my fellow Doom Charts crazies, like mix master Chris Tighe (The Mighty Decibel), cool Justin Wittenmeier (Metal Temple, DoomedForMetal), the brand new kid on the block Eric Crowe (Doomsayer Records / Halo Of The Goat Radio) or old hand Steve Woodier (Anointing The Sick), are better at appreciating and assessing the quality of certain albums from those genres. But after pressing play on the new Death Beat album by the Russian three called Dekonstruktor, I immediately was hooked on all those, errr, hooks. Hooked on their grind. Their approach to the earlier mentioned genres implores an abundance of groove and melody, even if those are on occasion subterranean and surrendered to the noise on top. Almost all of the tracks implore some stomping doom or a droning element that will get you into a white-out kind of daze. But they all switch it up with industrial moments, sludgecore and noise elements. And all of that sounds harsh, but for some reason, as we stated earlier on, the amount of groove and melody turns these over forty minutes of white-out, black, death, doom, into something desirable and addictive. Death Beat is full of life and it will sharpen your senses…

(Written by JK)

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Grey Mouse – A Moment of Weakness

 

 

Grey Mouse – A Moment of Weakness
Addicted Label / No Name – 2021
Rock, Noir, Blues, Americana, Country, Gothic, Psych
Rated: ***

A Moment of Weakness is a beautifully composed and executed bluesy Americana, country rock album filled with gothic and noir elements. It’s their ninth release (perhaps more?) since Russian Grey Mouse started back around 1990. The vehicle for all that Alexey Chunikhin wishes to convey. Down beat and filled with slow and mysterious sounding instruments that seem to draw out this babbling brook with tiny pencil lines. The cello of course takes centers stage and casts its long and magical shadow across the entire album. Highly atmospheric it touches on certain seventies inspired psychedelic elements but never actually goes that route, it just slowly meanders through the deep thought landscape. Gloomy, dreary and dark the eight tracks evoke images of sand slowly being cast across a table of light turning into the most wonderous of images. But even though you are enjoying this impressionistic, magic realist approach to rock noir, you might feel it’s just a bit too serene, too peaceful for the stories it tries to relate and it could use a waterfall or two or some rapids turning A Moment of Weakness into a twisted twinkling of turmoil…

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The Three of Tuesday

The Three of Tuesday

Yes. I know. We depicted a tree for this Three of Tuesday post. But Stoner HiVe likes to rustle the feathers and mix things up. And for the Three of Tuesday we will try and something different on occasion. We unfortunately did it only once; but now Shastabeast has gone and stirred up the pot! In a big way, cause he highlighted four instead of three releases… That dirty beast! Check out what he has to say about the awesome [addicted label] from Russia and a few of their releases! Heeeere's Shasta!

And now for something a little different. In the burgeoning underground scene of Russian Federation, [addicted label] has been a one stop shop for all things heavy since 2011, dealing in experimental noise, acid psych jams, sludge, and everything in between. Highlighted below are just a few choice parts of the well curated catalog, with plenty more to dig into.

Juice Oh Yeah - Sila Vselennoy

Juice Oh Yeah! This is eerie, mystical garage doom with psyched out Sabbath roots, drawing you into some dangerous yet groovy ritual. A different and attention grabbing take on bluesy doom.

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Pressor - Weird Things

Brutal weighted sludge with a weird, spacey edge to it. Pressor's wall of sound is mercilessly crushing.

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The Grand Astoria - Punkadelia Supreme

A frenetic, unpredictable, and totally unique melting pot of stoner rock, psych, folk, southern rock, and more. The Grand Astoria's endless creativity is akin to the likes of Caustic Casanova and King Gizzard.

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Pressor/Diazepam/Soom - Split

A perfectly filthy split of doomed sludge. Pressor flattens all in its path with ten ton riffs, Diazepam brings utter madness with sickly distortion and paint peeling vocals, and Soom's plodding tone is so low it's subterranean.

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And do you remember, chalk hearts melting on the playground wall.. Errr.. Sorry, we meant, do you remember Megalith Levitation or Disen Gage ?! Both addictive and [addicted] as well!