As if the name wasn’t enough to make this ~ 10 minute
investment of my time, the contents more than delivered the goods. Anuus Altaar
is an obscure U.S. based artist that is described as black metal fused with
noise, but in actuality it’s black metal vocals and atmospheres created through
doomy industrial soundscapes. Anyone who can scratch their ass without the help
of a GPS system knows what the difference is between noise and Anuus Altaar, in
fact the closest similarities that immediately come to mind are to Reclusa and
Fellatrix Morgue.
“The Shrouds of Megiddo” is a more upfront artillery fire
drum machine industrial clusterfuck with passive ambient moments in between
psychotic percussive bullets, which also lead into “Impious Masturbator” and
show up again halfway through it.
The percussion on “Impious Masturbator” is partially leftover from “The
Shrouds…” but does have this really great almost classic industrial military
stomp rhythm for a brief moment here and there, but the brilliance is in the
timing and placing of the different rhythm components and creepy ambient
blurbs. The atmosphere is always intense and dark, but those ambient pieces
really bring in a supernatural and horror vibe to the entire album.
“Miasmic Worship in Trance” is my standout track. It starts
out as a simple symphonic synth melody, then explodes into a Reclusa like
sludgy industrial fit, and finally back to the machinegun drum machine that cycles
back to the synth, and it’s that continual cycling of rhythmic elements and
tempos that completely defines and glues the album together through all five
tracks, which makes a short 10 minute EP play out like one long pulsing maggot
caccoon. I seriously live for this type of stuff and have a growing pile of stuff to post in this style.
Apparently the name has changed to Jhesu Masturbator
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