Item: Throbbing Gristle - Part Two: The Endless Not
Rating: 5
Author: KindOfBlue

THE REVIEW

Never heard of Throbbing Gristle in my life, never even heard their name to be honest, yet I am very passionate about Industrial. A gap that many upon hearing it will lynch me for, a gap that could be easily filled, and that's what I did. This won't be a review to describe the new album from the aforementioned group after 26 years of silence; there are those who will do it better than me (and there are many better than me).

26 years have passed since their last album, and of those 26 years, if I've understood their style correctly, there's no trace: The Second Part of TG is actually a return to the purest and most sincere Industrial. Experimentalism and electronics galore, nightmares and oblivions of human nature turned into music, a music as heavy as the album cover. A mountain in a tranquil landscape. Industrial is not tranquility of the soul; Industrial makes you think "what if I fell from the top?"

A perpetual terror, a constant of the album brought to the extreme apex, a music that leaves no time for human thought. And immediately, without warning, you fall from that mountain, like the rocks that are shattering your brain, like the darkest and most tenebrous memories of your past: it doesn't matter whether it was calm and peaceful or troubled and wrathful, nightmares when attacking choose neither sex nor social class. And while our body tries to halt the descent, other rocks smash your body and reduce you to a miserable pulp, miserable flesh. All that remains after the fall is just the wind, which like a vulture drags your remains making them part of the landscape: congratulations brother, welcome to our big family.

Obviously, all this doesn't happen in the blink of an eye, there would be no more fun, indeed, you must savor inch by inch, pain by pain, fear by fear this Mountain that is Industrial. While you are first at the top all intact and then at its feet without a shred of your body's matter, it remains instead immobile, relentless, like the fears (rocks) that have assailed you. Congratulations brother, welcome to the big family.

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Summary by Bot

This review expresses a powerful first impression of Throbbing Gristle’s album after a 26-year gap. It highlights the album’s pure industrial nature, experimental sounds, and intense emotional impact. The review emphasizes the music’s ability to evoke fear, pain, and reflection through relentless sonic assaults. It portrays the album as a heavy, immersive experience true to the genre’s essence.

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