Beats and yelling shorts, 19th August 26

Sallow Moth: Hydrophilous BroodOut 24th July on Willowtip Records Surrealist brutal death metal redrafts elements of ‘Obscura’ and post 2000s Suffocation, but as with most contemporary avant-garde progressive extreme metal, it conflates stylistic incontinence with a density of ideas. Sure, for solid stretches of this album Sallow Moth work the Rubik’s Cube of tightly packed riffs and accents around with alacrity. Achieving a pleasing, multi-dimensional interplay of motivations, like a heated exchange between various interlocutors. But entropy inevitably sets in as Sallow Moth run out of resources to load into this horn of plenty, and end by resorting to incongruous methods to increase their mileage. Traditional melody sets in to contrive a sense of catharsis, reflecting post metal elements alongside light jazz, and even touches of melodic death metal, none of which work in the twisted setting already established. The groundwork is laid for an idiosyncratic character which is more than…