Absent In Body
Plague God

THE REVIEW

I emerge from the long winter hibernation, awakened by the debut album of Absent In Body.

For now, the only work of 2022 capable of properly shaking me; an impressive sonic monolith that towers, moving between Doom-Industrial-Sludge. Nothing new, let's be clear from the start, but played with a dose of perversion like I haven't heard in a long time. Just read the names of the musicians involved in this SuperBand to be left speechless: Scott Kelly, Igor Cavalera, along with the voice and guitar of AmenRa. And the musical references can only steer towards, navigate turbulently towards Neurosis, Godflesh, early Swans. Devastating, terrifying but also capable of unexpected "sweetness" and glimpses of alive light as happens in many passages of the album. Only five tracks for not even forty minutes; perhaps I would have preferred a greater depth in the debut work of these sound terrorists; but, given the lean times, perhaps it's better to be content. The path is linear and settles on restrained, mellifluous timing, never bursting into rapid brutality as one might expect since behind the drums sits one of the Cavalera brothers. A granitic and synthetic voice combines tentacularly with the instruments, as highlighted in an obscure manner when listening to the only track I point out: the concluding "The Half Rising Man" which begins its long journey with few acoustic notes coming from cold and distant worlds. The nervous tension increases, expands to excess and literally explodes thanks to the entry of drums and bass that suddenly burst onto the icy sound scene. Mechanical and black guitar riffs reinforce the sonic scaffold...and everything collapses, everything self-destructs...RISE FROM RUINS...

...Frightening...

Diabolos Rising 666.