Plague Organ was invited by Roadburn in collaboration with Le Guess Who? to perform their debut album Orphan live in full for the first time at Roadburn Redux 2021 in 013 Tilburg.
Get the album:
A true blast beat marathon, this 37 minute black metal drone behemoth will leave you gasping for air, while you lose any sense of time and space. Maybe you'll get a little nightmarish fever as well.
Quote from the album release:
With influences ranging from deviant free-form jazz, drone and dark ambient, to ritualistic black and death metal all the way to the most erratic strains of kraut and improvised psychedelia, abhorrent avant-garde/ambient black/death metal deformity Plague Organ debut with their first ever offering, "Orphan", a spiraling and malformed mantra of deviated experimentalism and inverted incantations designed to bore into the listener's mind and ravage it of its sanity.
On the single forty-minute track, the deranged Dutch duo (who feature members from death metal deliriants Cryptae, Imperial Cult, Dead Neanderthals are more) unravel a single nauseating and diseased spell of guitar-less aural claustrophobia made of hallucinating synth patterns, obsessive percussions, psychotic bass-lines, blood-curdling grunts and spectral lamentations that combined unison weave a suffocating and disorienting fractal of self-replicating passages, making the listener feel asphyxiated in a dimensionless maze with no discernible exit.
Trapped inside the near-geometric absurdity the listener becomes the subject of a lucid nightmare as they sink deeper into a state of catatonic delirium and of helpless hypnosis while their psyche is meticulously consumed and devoured by album's abhorrent repetitions and winding hypnotic deformities.
By all means a triumph in fringe sonic experimentalism and among the most accomplished and unclassifiable avant-garde extreme metal anomalies of the year, "Orphan" is a must for all fans of other deranged experimentalists like Ride for Revenge, 夢遊病者, Sunn O))), Chaos Echoes, Antediluvian, Oksennus, Sect Pig and beyond.
Plague Organ (live)
Marlon Wolterink - bass & vocals
René Aquarius - drums & vocals
Otto Kokke - keys
All music by Plague Organ.
Performed April 17, 2021 at 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
013:
Lights: Paul van der Pijl
Studio: Ken Kuipers & Erik-Jan Dodd
Stage sound: Laurens Evers
Video:
Director: Jim Fokke
Grading: Bas Vermeeren
Camera: Robin van Belzen, Tim van der Voort, Remco Radstaat, Bas Visser, Fjodor de Lange, Martijn van de Wouw, Sander Mulkens
Jib: Merlijn Dielemans, Rinco Ederveen
Facilities: VideoBrix
Post-production:
Music mix, additional editing, grading: Marlon Wolterink
Thank you:
Walter & Becky / Roadburn - Johan & Barry / Le Guess Who?
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