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The American band Body Void reaches their fourth album, along with numerous splits with other bands and EPs, with this programmatic full-length "Atrocity Machine" from 2023. The band plays a kind of extremely slow and dark Sludge Doom Metal infused with strong doses of noise and electronics and Black Metal vocals, a proposition thus for only the brave few.
It starts with “Microwave,” a 28-second electronic intro with a noise flavor, before taking on the form and coils of a pachydermic and corrosive Sludge that always remains on obsessive and excruciating coordinates (“Human Greenhouse” and “Flesh Market”). “Cop Show” is a lacerating track in its corrosiveness, 8 and a half minutes where a magmatic and grotesque riff is instilled throughout its duration with the counterpoints of the screaming vocals that at times prove nerve-wracking due to their heaviness.
“Divine Violence” begins with a blast beat only to slow down and offer us 10 minutes of pure and insane sonic nihilism, in this, very similar to the gigantic Khanate by James Plotkin. Here everything is slowed down, monochrome, and you are swallowed by the quicksand of doom metal where dreams become chilling nightmarish. As a comparison, the extreme sounds of the gloomy Primitive Man might also come to mind, with their fossilization in digging into dirt, trash, and decay, leaving poor listeners who approach such sonic material groaning on the ground. The title track “Atrocity Machine” also lasts 10 minutes, and the assault of sludge-noise guitars is not limited, but rather explodes even more when the fuse is nearly spent, and everything becomes a booming and annoying buzzing noise. The black metal chant continues to stun us with its cursed vocals that seem to come from the deepest bowels of the Earth. Everything is upheaval and destruction. Death.
The three from Vermont, along with Primitive Man, confirm themselves on their fourth album as one of the highest peaks ever reached by extreme doom metal. This “Atrocity Machine” is a war relic to listen to on headphones in the dark winter with the windows wide open to see the demons of the mind that this music generates emerging from your closet with its pachydermic and unhealthy advance, until your nightmares become a frightening reality.
Heart-wrenching masterpiece.
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