Trichomoniasis - Containment Facility - review
Trichomoniasis - Containment Facility - review
Tracklist
01. -----02. Next On The Conveyor Belt
03. Waste Incinerator
04. Containment Facility
05. Ventilation Shutdown
06. Oceanic Pole Of Inaccessibility
07. Orphan Source
08. Emergency Depressurization
A review by
Roman Doez July 12, 2026
Free-form brutal death metal is one of my favorite niche metal sub-sub-sub-genres, and it has been thriving in the 2020s thanks to the likes of Encenathrakh, Effluence and Trichomoniasis. It’s a style that is very unwelcoming if you don’t already have a penchant for unconventional music, and the past few years have seen it develop in even stranger ways, like when Effluence replaced their guitars with a distorted piano. It’s a fringe scene where things are always moving and evolving in crazy ways, but it paradoxically started getting a little repetitive.
This is mostly due to the fact that the scene started out as everyone copying Encenathrakh and adding some of their personal flair, so it naturally took some time to get some clear independent voices to emerge. And, to me, Containment Facility is the first album to really emancipate itself from the shadow of the genre’s progenitors. Where Encenathrakh sound like a brutal death metal interpretation of Cecil Taylor’s work, Containment Facility instead feels like a harsh noise wall with a brutal death filter.
Despite what my previous sentence might lead you to believe, Containment Facility is, in fact, not a blend of metal and noise, at least not in the way most would expect it, as there is no actual noise music to be found there. Instead, Trichomoniasis deliver a complete deconstruction of brutal death metal, breaking it down into a machinal, almost unrecognizable interpretation of the genre that is philosophically closer to noise music than to anything Suffocation has ever written.
This is achieved first through the vocals, which are sampled and looped until they become a droning noise, fully dissociated from any sound a real human being could emit. The drums are monolithic, keeping a steady, repetitive, ultra-fast rhythm in most tracks, to the point that they too completely detach themselves from music and transform into an incessant pounding of noise, occasionally enriched by variations, such as cymbals crashes, but never breaking away from that steady, immutable and uncompromising rhythm. The guitars are the real source of chaos and unpredictability in all this, sounding alternatively like a car alarm and something you’d find on an acoustic free improv album. That’s quite a wide range, and they sometimes get closer to the sound you would expect from usual brutal death metal guitars, but they never settle for anything normal.
This creates a colder, more industrial atmosphere than what brutal death metal is usually about, with even the song titles all being very mechanical ideas like a conveyor belt or a waste incinerator rather than the usual fleshy blood and guts that the genre has used us to. Everything is more calculated and at the same time unpredictable; there is a further layer of abstraction and disconnect from regular music than in other free-form brutal death metal records, the likes of which I haven’t heard in metal since Ov (an album that features the guitarist of Encenathrakh, because of course it does).
And it completely works. From beginning to end, I am enthralled by what Trichomoniasis are pushing forward, to the point where I find myself listening to the album several times in a row. That is not something I ever do with music. But I am so utterly captivated by Containment Facility that I can’t stop coming back to it. It scratches a specific part of my brain in the most satisfying way possible, in a way only noise music usually does.
I think we have reached a breaking point, this is what it was all leading up to. I hope this album opens the floodgates for even more experimentation and boundary breaking, there are no limits anymore. This is an album that will speak to almost no one, but if you’re like me, it already has a dedicated spot in your heart just waiting to be filled, Amigara Fault style. Enter Containment Facility with an open mind, the worst thing that could happen is losing 18 minutes of your day, I think that’s a pretty fair ask. Now, it’s time for my fifth listen of the day.
Written on 12.07.2026 by
Written on 12.07.2026 by
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Bro... I loved your review but come on, this is 95% run on the mill grind with no almost death whatsoever 
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Posts: 1281 Written by koob on 13.07.2026 at 13:44 Nothing run of the mill about this album lol, I do agree that there are grind elements in it but I find it to have a strong brutal death feel above all else. Tracks like "Waste Incinerator" or "Containment Facility" don't really sound like anything I've heard in grind but I could draw comparisons with stuff like Putridity for example
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