Primitive Man - Caustic. The name alone flies in the face of all that is pretentious, and yes, their music does too. Despite that, it's the type of album that leaves you unsure as to whether you're too dumb to understand it, or just dumb enough to try and find a deeper album below the surface.
"Denver's nihilistic trio PRIMITIVE MAN return with Caustic, their second full-length offering of soul-crushing blackened doom and noise-ridden claustrophobia. Recorded and produced at Flatline Audio by Dave Otero (Cobalt, Cephalic Carnage, Cattle Decapitation), Caustic is 12 songs and 75+ minutes of bloodcurdling howls, abysmal tones and dense, unsettling feedback spewing forth a cesspool of utter misery. With lyrical themes ranging from political corruption, personal struggle and the crumbling social climate facing the world today, Caustic serves as a cataclysmic soundtrack for a world gone awry."
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.
Who said it was perfect? That's a big word, my friend. It's a great album imo, not sure if it's better than Scorn yet, I need to give it a couple more spins.
It's not better than Scorn, but really the gap in quality has a lot less to do with the music itself and more with the amount of space it takes up here. 40 minutes of Primitive Man is about as much of this abysmal, soul raping sludgey filth that one can really take before it starts to all sort of blur together, become overly monotonous, and go from "fuck yeah this rips" to "ok, this is pretty boring and needs more variation." Not a bad release, but sort of suffers from being "too much of a good thing," for lack of better words.
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.
It's not better than Scorn, but really the gap in quality has a lot less to do with the music itself and more with the amount of space it takes up here. 40 minutes of Primitive Man is about as much of this abysmal, soul raping sludgey filth that one can really take before it starts to all sort of blur together, become overly monotonous, and go from "fuck yeah this rips" to "ok, this is pretty boring and needs more variation." Not a bad release, but sort of suffers from being "too much of a good thing," for lack of better words.
Idk, I thought it did a fairly good job of justifying the length, and honestly I'd consider it their best. Seemed fairly varied (or at least as much as they could have managed without sacrificing the aesthetic)
Idk, I thought it did a fairly good job of justifying the length, and honestly I'd consider it their best. Seemed fairly varied (or at least as much as they could have managed without sacrificing the aesthetic)
It could be a slow grower, need to listen to it in full a few more times for sure
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.
It's not better than Scorn, but really the gap in quality has a lot less to do with the music itself and more with the amount of space it takes up here. 40 minutes of Primitive Man is about as much of this abysmal, soul raping sludgey filth that one can really take before it starts to all sort of blur together, become overly monotonous, and go from "fuck yeah this rips" to "ok, this is pretty boring and needs more variation." Not a bad release, but sort of suffers from being "too much of a good thing," for lack of better words.
I just finished listening to it. It is their best yet, and I actually find is varied enough to justify the length. It has this sections of , eh, "post metal" in the middle of songs that are typically less bludgeony and yet fitting enough. My only complain is that, unlike Indian, they did not incorporate the noise ingredient into the songs, and put them in separate, short tracks.
My only complain is that, unlike Indian, they did not incorporate the noise ingredient into the songs, and put them in separate, short tracks.
That would definitely be more interesting if they indeed fused that noise into the larger tracks, I kinda felt the same way about the debut. However, that's just a fleeting idea, I'd really have to hear what it sounds like to decide whether or not the two work better standing alone or not
Or maybe Ethan has some noise side project worth looking into?
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.
The demo? That's not ALL noise, is it? I've honestly never listened to it in full but I do remember they played something off of it at Roadburn and it sounded as sludgey as anything else off Scorn or this album
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.
The demo? That's not ALL noise, is it? I've honestly never listened to it in full but I do remember they played something off of it at Roadburn and it sounded as sludgey as anything else off Scorn or this album
I remember it as all noise done by only Ethan btw. Haven't played for years now, though.
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I remember it as all noise done by only Ethan btw. Haven't played for years now, though.
Pretty sure they played this, which isn't noise either, but I hear ya
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.
I am very late to this party - my newest obsession, what a band. But they should learn to use their noisier parts within their sludge.
I gotta agree with this, quite a fan of both Primitive Man's sludge and noise incarnations and Steel Casket from last year especially was fucking sick, but it'd be really cool to see the two sounds merged. Wonder if they ever will be
---- I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.
I'm not a newbie to listening to the countless variation of doom metal, but I never heard of these guys until very recently in a Facebook doom/sludge group. I took their entire discography to listen in 3 days and I must confess that due to the exaggeration of noise ambience used in most of their material, especially the very annoying amplifier distortions in every single start of a song, I got some migraine and this came to be the only thing that really appealed to me. They've got visceral talent and potential and this album stands out as a pretty much diverse effort inside the whole genre. I'd love to hear more of them like this.