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Dekonstruktor — Death Beat
(Addicted Label BNiL 825, 2024, MC / DL)

by Henry Schneider, Published 2024-09-06

Russia’s champions of glutinous sludge metal, Dekonstrucktor, have released a new album of doom-laden sonic distortion guaranteed to curl your toes, Death Beat. After a four year gap, Dekonstruktor presents six harsh, minimalist, industrial trance tracks with a hypnotic contemplation of death. The trio of Mitya DHS (drums and vocals), Garish (guitar and bass), and Memfis (guitar, bass, and vocals) grind out harsh doom-distorted guitars combined with buried hellish vocals and dark plodding beats as they inexorably lead the way through the morass. Looped bass riffs exude a hint of Killing Joke to liven things up a bit. After slogging your way through the first four tracks and avoiding the guzzling snarling demons, you reach the shortest track, “Symmetric Unfolding to Death,” at 3:31 that has a lo-fi garage-band vibe, but it is hardly symmetric. The album closes with the nearly melodic, if I dare use the word in the context of Dekonstruktor, “High-Handed Enemy.” The two-bar riff is not as distorted as the prior tracks, but there are some random knocks that sound like someone could be at your door. Though the track lasts 10:22, the music fades away to silence around 8:40, followed several seconds later by a slow crescendo of a chord that eventually fades away — quite a departure from the rest of the album. I am sure that there is a small population of sludge doom metal fans out there that just gobble this stuff up. Dekonstruktor is definitely not for everyone.

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Filed under: New releases, 2024 releases

Related artist(s): Dekonstruktor / The Moon Mistress

More info
http://dekonstruktor.bandcamp.com/album/death-beat

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