November is Doom - Body Void : "Atrocity Machine"

 If the world was not going to end in a few months I might be more concerned about the growing problem with American metal. It seems that these hipsters who invaded the scene back in the early 2000s are now a bunch of virtue-signaling babies who make metal that is really them squalling as they soil their diapers. They put the fact that they represent a social group and to not like them means you are not inclusive. They do this with little regard for actually being worth a shit. The first actual song on Body Void is just distorted pounding that drones on with screamed vocals that sound heavy at first but then it really goes nowhere. That does not fly here. I do not give a fuck about politics or what rights you think you should or should not care about, after all, it's a smoke screen from the important issues like can you play your instrument or write a song. No one cares what your pronouns are and to put them on your Bandcamp page tells me where your priorities lie and they are not with music. 

It gets progressively worse because once the shock of their dense noisy sound wears off you are left with a band that plays at a sluggish drone because their musical ability is sub-par to the point of almost being just noise. The only dynamic shift is going from one obnoxious ambient noise to the next. Some of the sloppiest blast beats you have ever heard go down as the song climaxes/.  Noise sludge would be the better categorization of their sub-genre. Feedback squeals out from every turn. A minute into "Cop Show" finds another sonic battery that feels like a waste of my time. The snarl of the vocals is the worst vocal I have heard since the Body.  This album is painful to endure and it's taking everything in me to press through it. The total lack of direction is almost as appalling as the lack of originality. 

The feral blast beats of "Divine Violence", just sound like their instruments got thrown down a wind tunnel. They do capture a few harrowing sounds in the layers of guitar here, but it is wasted in the plodding crunch this song wanders off in. I can not believe I have to endure eight more minutes of it. If this was grindcore at least I would only have to tolerate minute bursts of this. There are some interesting sounds around the eight-minute mark, but not interesting enough to force you to endure this. The album closes with the ten-minute title track.  It is dissonant and cavernous, but those things alone can not carry the song. Six and a half minutes in and the song dissolves into harsh noise. I will round this down to a 4 it is one of the worst albums I have heard in some time.