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ANTIGAMA  Zeroland  CD   (Selfmadegod)   11.98


Antigama's second album Zeroland from 2005 remains my favorite from this Polish outfit, a masterwork of discordant, progressive grindcore that combined a Voivoidian dissonance and spirit of experimentation with a precision grindcore attack that is still unmatched. The album has been out of print for awhile, but Selfmadegod finally repressed it this year; if you're a fan of challenging, crushing grind, you seriously need to hear this album if you've yet already done so. Here's my old writeup for the album from back when it was originally released:

Looking at the packaging on this CD, it would be easy to assume that this might contain some sort of psychedelic techno if it weren't for the Selfmadegod Records logo on the back of the case. What this is, is one of the best grindcore releases of 2005, a superb new blast of futurist grind violence from Poland that sounds to my ears like a modern day Voivod gone grind, or maybe Diatribes-era Napalm Death crossed with Nasum's rabid lockstep blastmetal and the nightmarish industrial atmosphere of classic Skinny Puppy. The album spews streams of speed-of-light blastbeats, disharmonic ultra-poly-rhythmic deathcore colliding with psychedelic electronic noise and chilling industrial loops.. These guys are at the top of their game here, delivering skullcracking, machine-tight grind combined with cleverly assembled avant/cyber/electronic sections and their signature dissonant guitar sound.
Zeroland, despite its experimental leanings and odd time signatures flirting with the boundries of free jazz and extreme noise, is also surprisingly catchy. The vocals here are an effective mixture of clean, heavily processed and spacey clean vocals and brutal gorilla tantrum deathgrunt, the singer's morbid moan getting into some weird territory that definitely doesn't sound like your usual death/grind delivery. And when the band isn't blasting through their insane cybergrind , they're melting your brainpaste with stuff like "Starshit" (a harrowing piece of extreme psychedelic vocal noise) and the massive closer "Zeroland", with it's 9 minutes of sinister fuzzed-out sample collage spoolling off into an ambient blackness while subtle clicks and cuts dance around far-off feedback screams. HIGHLY recommended to fans of primo avant-garde grindcore.


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