Self-Inflicted Violence - A Perception Of Matter And Energy - review
Self-Inflicted Violence - A Perception Of Matter And Energy - review
Release date
December 01, 2009 Tracklist
01. Liquids02. Artificial Phenomenon
03. Eugenics
04. A Mental Cancer II
05. Comfort In Insomnia
06. Realisation
A review by
Lucas December 15, 2009
It's not my job to judge lyrical content or stagenames though, so no more ranting. A Perception Of Matter And Energy is best described as a poor man's Drudkh in their Forgotten Legends and Autumn Aurora phase. SIV utilizes a lot lot of meandering, droney riffs but wraps them in a stammering and stuttering jacket much too often. Occasionally they flow nicely, but mostly I'm annoyed at how messed up the potentially great riffs are. Sometimes they're badly played, sometimes they're badly produced and sometimes they're badly written.
There's not much to say about the drums or the bass, they were present at the time of recording and played their parts, so let's move on the vocals. They remind me of the guitar riffs in the sense that they are almost very good, but somehow end up being bad. Sometimes they're dodgy, sometimes they're just over-the-top, sometimes they're weak, I don't know what the hell is going on here, but there's always something wrong with the vocals.
A Perception Of Matter And Energy is a strange album. When playing this album I cannot stop thinking that the members fucked it up on purpose. There's always something that annoys me, bothers me or irritates me. And I like to think of myself as a pretty easy-going dude. If stripped of all this annoying bits and bytes it might even be quite good. But who cares, Drudkh and Burzum did it a whole lot better anyway.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 6 |
| Songwriting: | 6 |
| Originality: | 5 |
| Production: | 6 |
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Nothing to see here then. Thanks for the warning. 
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Listening to that is some self-inflicted violence. They got that straight.
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If I ever have a depressive black metal band, my pseudonym shall be VIII and I shall sing about how people should commit suicide because they didn't have a V8 when they could have... xD 
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Posts: 5161 Written by [user id=5630] on 16.12.2009 at 03:06 Great minds think alike! Written by Grand Funk! on 16.12.2009 at 05:13 I listened to the first track twice. It was enough for me to tell it was masturbation. With no orgasm in the end. And what the hell is dark metal? What are you putting behind the word "dark"?
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How cute... the label defending the artist on a webzine. Always good to know there are actually labels still backing their artists. But to call something unprofessional just because you disagree is just as unprofessional.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996 
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Posts: 5161 Written by Grand Funk! on 16.12.2009 at 15:00 Oh yeah, I just can't understand the beauty of it. I'm wrong, have no taste, and know nothing about music. EDIT: I'm not at all into Black Metal, don't look at my profile. I was just passing by, thought I could bash some random obscure band, and did it, for fun. Right....
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OKay I checked it out, the only thing black metal about it are the vocals imo. The rest I would call post-punk with post-rock and some metal thrown in. And actually not as bad as you describe it, Lucas. Mmm, actually the term Dark Metal fits quite appropriately here I would say.
---- Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.) 05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996
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Looked into this a couple weeks back... Not as bad as I was expecting; currently this sits at about a 6.5 - 7 for me. Somewhat blah, but not entirely off-putting.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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