drive your plow over the bones of the dead

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It isn't far-fetched to say that sometimes you get burnt out on music. I'm sure many of us have come to that point at one time or another, where you just kind of need a break from sound. Unfortunately I'm terrible at this. I was trying to take a little breather from music, but as soon as I saw the name drive your plow over the bones of the dead, I quietly muttered "Fuck" and pressed play. “Demo” is absurdly noisy, in all the ways that make it a delightful cacophony to listen to.

Opener "marionette" in milliseconds builds up its wall of sound brick by quickly picked brick, a whirling dervish of shrieks, guitars and drums become a thing of sonically disfigured beauty. Follow up track “propitiation” makes a meal out of its heady driving chugs, before its about face, an absolute wind-out to softening dissonance. Next we’re greeted by the quickly executed intro of “when what once worked suddenly breaks” before a meandering, yet delightfully lachrymose melody wraps itself around an-almost decipherable sound clip, as pockets of shouts and screams turn out a varying intervals, before the tracks gives one last upswell death throe surge forward, turns into silence. Closing track “aspected of dust” taps out what sounds to be a punk number, before swiveling back into the much and mire of noisy chaos that “demo” has so eagerly heaped upon us. Wailing riffs and circular howls grapple intensely with thunderous drums as the beat punches and punches and punches, until all you have is the residue of the last 9 or so odd minutes of this potently unflinching din.

Drive your plow, as I’ve begun referring to them in the shorthand, came out of nowhere it seemed, and have earned a fair bit of buzz for this punishingly fun iron maiden of racket they’ve put out. We’re greatly looking forward to what they have in store for us next.

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Writer : @letsgetpivotal

Editor : @just_reidz

06/19/23