Your face? It could use a proper melting, and mega-pummeling-metal instrumentalist Cavernium Ul Throsk, working under various, almost chthonic pseudonyms, is here to administer it. How does Cavernium Ul Throsk, collectively, invoke a grotesque and flesh-dripping facial fire?? By creating their/his/its latest album, Infinita Resonat Mortis. Ready to be beaten, smacked, and hammered by a 10-track assault of noise-shrieking black metal? Let’s listen, and hit the highlights.
A brief, one-sentence origin you wouldn’t expect.
Hailing from Montague, MA, the multi-identity artist behind Cavernium Ul Throsk began a 25-year music career playing drums to old Creedence Clearwater Revival tapes.
Wait. “Chthonic-leaning Pseudonyms?” Multi-identity Artist?” Who really does what?
The artist plays the following instruments under the following pseudonyms:
WLURWERNNT: Pro-1 & Cat Synthesizers
ITTUULBRVRN: Bass
BLRRSCHKKTAPH: Rhythm King MRK-2 Drum Machine
And when words boast this many consonants, you can be sure one of them not-so-accidentally summons a minor, lower-dimensional terror god.
Listening, shielding our faces unsuccessfully, and talking about it (i.e., hitting the highlights).
Infinita Resonat Mortis begins with “Reborn to Larva,” and it’s a hyper-black noise, machine gunning assault that perhaps mimics the midnight-black rapids one descends while entering psyche-flattening, Hell-adjacent dimensions. It then becomes a distorted, twisting wind, leading us directly to…
…“Tyranny of the Uversloth,” which continues the one-million-miles-per-second nail gunning of aluminum siding. The noise cracks, slices, pours and froths; a wind blows, scalding and making melting vinyl of every newly arriving sinner’s face.
“Machinations of the Lagomorph” begins with a slight reduction in white-hot analog wind, but returns to the pelting, crashing waves of eternally sustained, knob-twisted sound morphing. You still struggle upon those thrashing rapids, but now suffer multitudinous (and scalding) stabbings from a million raining bolts of javelin-shaped flame.
“Punctured for Maggots” – boasting my favorite song title – features more water-slapping beat blasting, but with a faintly discernible and climbing melody underneath. And later, the black noise, this boiling, windy and eternal exhale, morphs into something lighter, more distant, offering a reprieve, a mildness, allowing our cursed traveler to take a breath – to tend to the small fires dissolving his teeth.
“Lair of the Marsupiant” reacquaints us with earlier aggressions before the black noise again morphs into something more tolerable and abiding; it’s another small reprieve from a soul-slaughtering, multi-directional, external/internal inferno.
The finale, “Dead Dying Again,” does NOT. LET. UP. The eternal drilling and pelting of the traveler’s soul continues ad infinitum, and there is no hope. No light. No release. The pain is all. The pain is everywhere and everything. The pain… is you. It sears, it cuts, it singes, it melts, morphs, and transforms you; you are now a shadowy, misshapen thing howling into the unspeckled night. You are alone, forever peeled apart, and now a loosely bound pile of coiling, cooking ribbon. For this is your punishment. For this is your deserved and immortal death.
But is it good?
Cavernium Ul Throsk’s Infinita Resonat Mortis is black noise suffusion to the power of 10,000. It’s a non-stop thrashing. A punishment by fire. An eternal evisceration of the soul. Infinita Resonat Mortis is a scalding scalpel excising your ego, and an iron tenderizer walloping your soul. It’s where you go to suffer, and where suffering is comparable to the sin. If you’re brave, and ready for a complete physical and spiritual unspooling, you can enter Infinita Resonat Mortis; however, your existence as a complete being will be eternally and atomically undone. For fans of relentless black metal bashing and hellish storms of flesh-grinding noise, you will have found your doom-signaling soundtrack – and your destruction. Recommended.
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