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Necro Deathmort - This Beat is Necro Deathmort

Necro Deathmort release their debut album on Distraction Records on 31st August.

Necro Deathmort is Matthew Rozeik and AJ Cookson and their amusingly titled album This Beat Is Necrotronic is a real cacophony of sounds and genres.  Yes its noisy but there is more to it than that. Multi-layered soundscapes conjour up contemporary visions of 1980s industrial metal bashers Test Department and SPK and the classic DJ Shadow debut album Entroducing, while I can also hear echoes of Krautrock, death metal, drone metal, and the electronica experimentalism of Aphex Twin.

Necro Deathmort create a twenty-first century mushroom-chewing trip for the offspring of Hawkwind and Gong fans, erring more towards synthetic noise and metallic chaos rather than freeform love and jazz.

From the album intro white noise and funky drone beat of Woburn Place Corner it is clear this isn’t going to be a commercial trip.  This assault spills over to Splith (Spill Your Filth) but the third track, Hurt Me I’m Bored,  drops the onslaught and offers a calm, gentle moment in which to gather your senses.   This track is closer to prog rock and krautrock than the opening gust of noise.  Hurt Me I’m Bored builds slowly with drone metal distorted guitars; and as the drums rise, at one point I thought the whole thing was going to switch to a speed metal onslaught of Napalm Death proportions. But in true prog rock tradition the epic sound continues to build for a full six minutes without going anyway.

I like the way tracks merge into each other giving the album a concept that becomes one long trip rather than individual tracks that can be plucked from the album and heard in the same sense as a single iTunes downloadable song.  Albums should sometimes be heard as albums, not a collection of tracks that can be randomly chosen to play in any order.

The album includes some great titles too. How can you not want to hear tracks like Origami Werewolf and I Fought The Law But The Law Won (Because Fighting Is Against The Law)?

Necro Deathmort’s This Beat is Necrotronic is a wonderful album.  But not to be played on Sunday mornings or at house-warming parties thrown to impress your new neighbours.  This music is as hard as nails and as deep as it is loud.

Listen to and buy This Beat is Necrotronic direct from Distraction Records.