Stoner Central #11: Phase 3 - Thrones and Dominions

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AMENRA – "III"
Hypertention Records
Finally, someone in noise-coreland gets it right.

Amenra - III Clearly revelling in their vast, coruscating guitar tones and ballsack-in-vice screecharoo, Amenra aren't about beguiling anyone with delicate fronds of sound, instead erupting in engorged riffage ensnaring one with monstrous, lava-like dissonance. This is well executed, astringent noise-core where cathartic, substrata guitar grind is stretched to bursting point only to retreat beneath broiling clouds of spare, euphoric melody.

While this weighty, primordial ebb and flow owes much to mood alchemists, Neurosis, this is no mere plagiarism, since Amenra successfully generates a rusty vortex of angst very much of their own creation. This is a coiled, brooding piece, rigorous with pendulous rhythms, entwined with a fearsome percussive shunt. As complete as Amenra's "III" sounds I can't help but feel that this is the mere genesis of something truly great, given the level of passion inherent within these heavily wrought grooves one becomes giddy with expectation for their next convulsive opus.
jason