Today Is The Day
Sadness Will Prevail

THE REVIEW

In the Middle Ages in Germany, there were special vessels called narrenschift, on which all the country's mad or unfortunate were confined and then set adrift, without food or water, towards certain death. Good old Bosch has given us a painting that depicts, as an allegory, this kind of ghost ship, where it is truly intriguing and terrifying to imagine what happened.

Well, "Sadness Will Prevail" could have been a fitting soundtrack for those one-way journeys toward the northern ice: a myriad of insane sound splinters bouncing through the ears of the unlucky listener... the lunatics are finally free to clamor on the ship's deck, and the result of quiet "field recordings," or "Narren-recordings," is a double album where the screams of the neurotic Steve Austin mix with various kinds of noises: from explosive white noise in a Merzbow style, to almost doom metal guitar outbursts.

The voice is regularly filtered and Austin's way of screaming seems like a convulsive vomit of bile in the listener's face. The drums perform memorable feats, the samples used are never trivial, and it's clear that ultimately this is not just a sick mind's outburst, but an attempt to reach the true limit of tolerance in extreme music.

Screams, torn bits of fabric, chilling tachycardias, sleepless nights, and mental health slipping away... Perhaps the most terrifying aspect is listening to the microscopic inserts of sweet, almost ambient music that seems taken from a Herzog film, only to plunge back into cacophony... it seems like the constant swinging between active ecstasy and the infernal abyss typical of bipolar depression. Everyone on board to taste hell!