01. Divampa L’Ignoto
02. Spire Di Sangue
03. Arde E Respira
04. Lo Spettacolo
05. Sogno A Sé Stante
06. Culla E Bara
07. Finzione
08. Precipizio Consapevole
09. Tutta La Morte In Un Solo Punto
The Eraserhead baby has competition for the most horrific babies ever.
Instantly striking cover art aside, Noise Trail Immersion have had an equally intriguing progression. Initially starting out as a mathcore act, with their self-titled Noise Trail Immersion EP even having some djenty touches and the seeds of an atmospheric touch, but it was the debut album Womb that really had those seeds sprout, pushing the music further into post-metal. Symbology Of Shelter then introduced a black metal element, and it wasn’t until the band’s first album on I,Voidhanger, Curia, that the mathcore elements became the background element for the more atmospheric post-black metal, a fusion of sounds that got a lot of praise.
Tutta La Morte In Un Solo Punto doesn’t introduce any new element to the band’s music necessarily, but it continues to tweak the share that each genre has, with dissonant black metal being the one that is the clear majority-holder here. Most of the music here is a vicious kind of black metal, with the mathcore side being felt more in how some sporadic moments have an avant-garde sense of rhythm, but mostly in a slight hardcore/screamo edge in the blackened vocals, though a lot of those do feel like elements I’m overstating because of their past sound. The post-metal side does also feel more understated this time around, with the album as a whole feeling more focused on being pummeling than atmospheric.
It’s also interesting to see how the album’s flow ties with its pummeling intensity. The opener pretty much doesn’t even feel like an opener, as if pressing play drops you already well within the album. The first half of the album only briefly lowers the pace and intensity, and it isn’t until the sparse ambient of “Sogno a sé stante” that there’s a proper breather, before continuing the onslaught. The run from “Finzione” to “Precipizio Consapevole” displays a bit of a mathcore touch in how intricate the drumming is and how much the transition between the two relies on it, whereas most of the rest of the album relies on the harmonies from the dissonant guitars.
Considering how much dissonant black metal is out there, I’m glad that this pivot towards it for the band still results in an album that stands out due to its intensity, and also that it known to do more than just be intense.
| Written on 05.07.2025 by Doesn’t matter that much to me if you agree with me, as long as you checked the album out. |