Burmese and Cadaver Eyes are two extreme bands. Taking elements of grind core and power electronics and placing them in an overall atmosphere of doom and this is what you get a I suppose. Just really crazy, and loud. Actually I’m pretty glad to have heard this as it sort of fills me with some hope. See I used to listen to a lot of industrial music but I found recently that sort of it has lost that sort of experimental intensity that started me listening in the first place. You know most of it has just gone very generic, and has an almost contrived cynism to it. Like trying so hard to come across as experimental and difficult to listen to, but failing miserably . Burmese and Cadavear Eyes do not fail in that way at all.
Actually I couldn’t even listen to the whole album in one listening I had to break it up as it became to much for me. That is pretty intense and noisy I think, being difficult to listen to that is. This split seems to capture that essence of what has been missing in a lot of experimental industrial of late, which is a really good thing. It’s nice to hear there is someone still stabbing away at making that old industrial landscape ambience blah blah blah thing going. You know just that really scary noisy fucked up music.
And that is not to say this is industrial as it is very much a fucked up grindcore, but there is an old industrial type sensibility to this. Like the old SPK Throbbing Gristle noise thing. Well not noise, but that sort of approach to making music that is really extreme and with no fear of upsetting or challenging, or perhaps even driving away, the listener. And I mean that really frees the artist up to express themselves in the intensity. I mean when you are willing to absolutely punish your fans you can do a lot more interesting stuff with extreme music.
And I think this attitude is necessary when crashing, and pressing the various styles together. I have to say though out of the two bands, Burmese is the more interesting to listen to. I just found it a little textually superior. I’m not implying that Cadaver Eyes are bad, unmistakable, or anything even remotely like that. I just found there tracks on here just to be a little bit more straight up loud and noisy, while Burmese had a little but of finesse in the chaos, a little more texture, a little more breaks and changes, and fucking it up to keep things a bit more crazily exciting. Either way extreme and crazy, and challenging to your uhh brain or something.
