Knut - Challenger
(Hydrahead)
Bleak, overwhelming, tortured and torturous in equal measure, "Challenger" is the death bellow of bull elephants, the jazz of the crazies, free-form improv performed by death-prog metal heads fueled by bad chemistry and mad science. Knut are as unrelentingly grim as any icy veined black metal band, except they follow none of the Satan rock star rules, eschewing the devil for perverse mathematics. The songs churn along like Godflesh with their backs on fire, a brutal testament to agony as art, and the only break in the program is the acoustic scraping of "58.788", a gloomy, psychedelic instrumental that sounds like Metallica trying to drown a Bloodrock song. Otherwise, it's all throbbing, ugly power, and if you could somehow rig it so that you listened to the album and the evening news at the same time, than you'd probably be stabbing yourself in the chest before the first commercial break. Knut didn't call this "Challenger" for nothing.
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