
Cloud Rat – Discography 2010-2015
The three-piece … play an in your face style of highly charged, experimental grindcore.
The three-piece … play an in your face style of highly charged, experimental grindcore.
Take past members of Wolvhammer, Empires, Manetheren, and Finger of Scorn. Stir until well blended. Mix in frosty Scandinavian black metal draughts of venom. Shake well. Sprinkle with British crusty gutter filth. Bake until bleak and urgent. Serve cold as death.
I was immediately struck by the music. While Oblivion Circle doesn’t play straight-up black metal, they do play black metal with plenty of death metal influences and a ton of atmosphere.
Imagine, if you will, somewhere in an alternate dimension, Johnny Cash, Crass, and Mumford and Sons engaged in an open relationship which resulted in a child. That child would be the Rail Yard Ghosts.
Vocally, she reminds me of a siren, luring you in. The difference is that she is not luring you to sea, but to your eternal damnation.
Moss Deceptiva is a brutally beautiful meditation on the destructiveness of modern society… It is with this weapon of musical destructiveness that we will be cleansed.
The whole EP comes at you like a wounded bear, perhaps mortally wounded, but still having enough strength to eviscerate you on its way out. Dead & Decaying is filthy and ugly in the best possible way.
The short EP gives the sense of a relentless, many clawed demon screaming across the landscape for the sole purpose of rending flesh from bone.
I always love an album which forces me into some involuntary reaction, especially an album that touches whichever part of my lizard brain causing headbanging. Initiates in the Great Work is just such an album.