Viscera

Pneumatic Detach | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 15, 2010)
• Original Release Date: October 14, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hive
• ASIN: B000BPWUI4
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #353,659 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Holowh

2. Separator

3. Sona

4. Patternerase

5. Moment of Comprehension

6. Putrescence

7. Discordant

8. Embers

9. Domination [Short Mix]

10. Relentless

11. Mindless Brutal Apparatus [With It-Clings]

12. Dischordant [Remix by C2]

13. Sona [Remix by 02]

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brutal, brutal, brutal, relentless, and brutal., January 26, 2008

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J. Rayne "noetic echoes" (Frederick, MD, United States) - See all my reviews
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In a nutshell, [Viscera] is a relentless and heavy barrage of staccato beats, punctuated with tense, minimal melodies and harsh noise. Like the other review, aside from the one semi-miss on the CD ("Mindless Brutal Apparatus") the album latches on to you at the first sound and doesn't stop pummeling. Unlike many other artists in the loose genre of rhythmic noise, many of these songs are marginally similar, which sets up a neat contrast between the songs' inherently chaotic nature. I can listen to this for hours on end.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Igloo Magazine's REVIEW, December 1, 2005

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Pietro Da Sacco - See all my reviews
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Review by: Mark Teppo, Igloo Magazine (www.igloomag.com)
(09.22.05) There are, in my book, two types of rhythmic noise: (1) noise that might have some rhythm buried under all the eardrum-shredding static and (2) rhythm that is built from noisy instrumentation -- industrial machinery, spastic plastic, eructating radio transmitters and biochemical neural pulses. Pneumatic Detach returns to Hive Records (they were Hive's first non-compilation release) with the furiously anthemic [Vis·Cer·A], a record of the second style that keeps the rhythms bone-crushingly fierce without resorting to over-saturation of the noise and distortion. It is a finesse crusher, a beat-down that travels up and down your musculoskeletal system like tiny jackhammers, bludgeoning each cluster of sinew and each bridge of bone.

"Moment of Comprehension" pounds you Tarmvred-style, and each hammer impact rattles all the way up through your molars. A melody whistles and cavorts behind the curtain of drums but there's no real point in trying to reach for it. Every bone in your hand will be shattered by the relentless beat of the banging pistons as you try to breach that curtain. A spectral voice whispers a warning about witches at the beginning of "Embers," a brief respite from the distorted beats, before another assault is launched upon your jellied bones. Pneumatic Detach wants to hit you hard; there's no dodging the bruising fists of fury. "Domination (short mix)" is like being spun in the TsF-18 Centrifuge at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center while Disney-built Animatronics of old Russian astronauts pelt the controlled cabin with steel marbles. "Separator" comes at you from so many directions that you can't hope to stop the beats from getting past your cheap defenses (all your base will belong to Pneumatic Detach!).

It-Clings provides the spoken word piece for "Mindless Brutal Apparatus," the only real misstep on the album (taking the whole viscera of Jessica Hosman's cover image to a brutal level of immediacy that isn't really necessary). Fortunately, the final track is a remix offered by 02 (Mike Wells of Gridlock) that encapsulates all the glitter and buzz of Trace-era Gridlock into the thunder of Pneumatic Detach's sonic storm front. From blistering start to atmospheric end, [Vis·Cer·A] delivers a crunching series of body blows that makes me happy to be hurting. Pneumatic Detach knocks what ails you right out of your system. This is a fierce contender for distorted beat catharsis experience of the year.