Artist: Wicked Innocence
Album: Omnipotence
Year: 1995
Label: Napalm Records
Surreal, nihilistic death metal from the mean streets of Salt Lake. Lead vocalist is an alien pig demon that has come to Earth to vomit forth prophecies of our race's demise. Or at least it seems that way. The chaos of Wicked Innocence's sound is barely contained. All instruments are played masterfully on the album (listen to the tone on that bass!), and the bands abstract song structure only adds to each songs' growing sense of uneasiness and dread. A great example of this is in the above track, Lines, that starts with lurching, funeral march riffing. The arrhythmic vocal pattern adds to a feeling of drugged, angry confusion and foreshadows the hallucinogenic build that begins at 0:54 in the video. The entire song gives me a strange, 'House on the Borderland' feeling of flying haphazardly through alien time and space.
For fans of: Mithras, Gigan, Demilich, the artist Virgil Finlay
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