The first
thing that I wanted to know about this CD is who Malachi Ritscher is and so,
assuming he was a musician, I plugged his name into the Bandcamp search engine
and oddly enough came up with the CD by NOXAGT called “BRUTAGE”, which was also
on my list to listen to and review.
Still not provided with a clear answer though, a search of Google taught
me that he set himself on fire as part of an Iraq War protest. So, if nothing else, this CD has already
taught me something and every day you learn something new you are growing.
At
first, the songs on this Metal Rouge CD come off with some notes and slight
tings. There is some kind of hum that is
almost like bees but could also be locusts.
It was kind of funny because when I was listening to it, one of my cats
got up from the other side of the room and went over and stared down the CD
player, as if he was rather disturbed by it.
There
is also some tinny static in here and it reminds me of that old bug zapper
sound, which I remember fondly from my youth.
I use terms like rattlesnake fairy dust to describe what I’m hearing,
and then it turns into wind chimes. It
intensifies as it goes throughout the second song, but by the third we’re
quieter with guitar tuning, distortion and then tones.
What’s
odd to me is that based on the title and knowing what I learned about the
titular character, I expected this to sound a bit more like someone setting
themselves on fire or at least a song of protest. Rather to me, it has an end of days feel,
much like the Bible predicted, and yet somehow that also just seems rather
fitting.
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