Noism - + Review
by Matt Hensch
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I would like to think this duo of Japanese musicians (if you can justify they deserve the label) actually attempted making good music and didn't write + in forty-five minutes. Noism has two members: one holds his guitar, another produces electronic drums. They enjoy brutal death metal. They enjoy techno. They enjoy connecting the two sounds into a single entity that simultaneously rapes both atmospheres.
Yes, + has identical charm as a prostate exam from Edward Scissorhands, being it is unquestionably on par with few albums contending with music's putrid bowels. Plus that + symbol is quite a retarded name for an album. These guys really show no mercy, now do they?
There is just one aspect about Noism's debut: speed. One guy plays single-layered death metal riffs for however long each anthem lasts while another dude programs thoughtless snare bashes at skin-melting levels and bass hits just as fast. No cymbals, hi-hats, toms, solos, riff shifts, mid-paced chops, or other qualities that could have been used to improve this musical shamble; those two wires connect, and + has been born. Throwing seven buckets of paint on a wall is not art; recording seven riffs over fluky programming is not music. Basically, if one is a sucker for fast music just because it is fast, one will be able to whack all over + after your Special Education courses have finished.
Spastic death metal defective in the originality department has little alms, so Noism looked around for the nearest remedy. They found techno in its worst form. Sure The Berserker comes to mind, mainly because they actually perform the jumble acceptably, but jumble is to corruption as The Berserker is to Noism; this record, in case one does not understand English, has a fair amount of stupidity. As + trucks on, instantaneous beeps stop and start constantly, while not aiding anything on both a musical perimeter and philosophical ideology. Occasionally, I raised an eye-brow. No reason for this album survives besides aimless zaps shot into the sky. Overall, I would call it abortive. Thankfully, this atrocity only lasts twenty-one minutes, which also has its negatives also. For example, I could have listened to something that actually tickled me, assh*les.
Yep, I am pretty much speechless. Noism, on one hand, aims at a new ground in brutal death metal by adding techno influences, but in reality, + is not worth a gallon of milk that expired two years ago. All twelve cuts seem like a sole dump of electronic brutality meshed up into random noise without any soul, more importantly intelligence. So no, I definitely suggest avoiding it entirely, unless you have others means for purchasing a useless CD. Perhaps one could stick their dick in the disc hole if one has obtained the required mechanisms, but I would not use that as an excuse to purchase the damned item.
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