Tetragrammacide - Typhonian Wormholes: Indecipherable Anti-Structural Formulæ (2015) (EP Review)

Tracklist:

1. Intro      
2. Paramilitant Entropic Initiation      
3. Intricate Acosmic Engineering     
4. Interlude      
5. Extra-Terroristical Chaosophic Intelligence      
6. Eructation of Anti-Existential Consciousness     
7. Outro

This is the first EP from the Indian two man harsh noise, blackened death metal band Tetragrammacide, the project is comprised of ‘Uragnostic Eliminator’ and ‘M.Opium’.

Have you ever tried to tune a worn out broken down old radio set to a channel, but instead all you get is abrasive static? Well if you have, just add a healthy chunk of bizarre esoteric atomic based cosmic Satanism and some drums and you have a pretty good description of this EP.

I should just point out here and now, unlike a lot of people I have nothing against harsh noise as a genre, and frankly I think it serves a purpose in trying to challenge what can really be called music. So I was pleasantly surprised that a blend of black metal, harsh noise and grinding death metal would work so well. This is a blend I have only really come across once before in the music of the band Satanic Abortion who sound extremely similar to Tetragrammacide.

This EP features, as the title suggests, sonically indecipherable instrumentation and vocals that blend into a swirling vortex of misanthropy and hate of that kind that could even put Revenge to shame in terms of its nihilism. To really be able to sit back and listen to this EP you have to be in a state of mind that doesn’t want metal, that doesn’t want familiarity, instead you just want to be fucking destroyed. Most people will hate this, and that’s fine, but I personally think that this is a stunning release that really stretches the boundaries of what can really be considered as blackened music. 

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