Oh Uriburu, Uriburu, Uriburu! What you’ve released here is borderline torture to sit through! To be able to call this music would be doing a serious injustice to the underground Noise scene. I think perhaps the definition of the word “music” in the dictionary needs to be revised ASAP, for “Enki’s Age Approaches” has near-nigh tarnished the definition of the word, and the fact that this is the second demo by this band gives me grave cause for concern. Surely after their first attempt they’d have realised that something was seriously wrong with the music they were writing? Obviously not.

The mixing on this demo is dire. The drums are far too high in the mix to the extent that Uriburu might as well have just recorded some drum tracks and released them instead of even bothering to record guitars and vocals. Ironically they went some way to doing this with the fifth track as that was just a drum recording, for all of 15 seconds. And please don’t get me started on the guitars, it’s as if it’s just one continuous note being played over a whole track at a time, making for tracks that get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves.

To be able to draw a single positive from this demo is proving extremely difficult, though by clutching at some very distant straws it could be said that a positive is that the only way is up from here on out! I can’t really see music getting much worse at all, even if I strained my mind to come up with something. It might have been better if they just didn’t record anything and stayed in the rehearsal room until their playing wasn’t causing the dog to pine.

As a final bit and byte, it might have been a better idea to have named this demo “My Death Approaches”, because I feel like I’ve just stuck one foot in my own grave. I’m off to listen to some music that might dig me out of this horrible mess.

Smell The Stench, looks like you’ve got a band that needs signing.

Oh Tzelmoth! What you’ve released here is borderline torture to sit through! To be able to call this music would be doing a serious injustice to the underground Noise scene. I think perhaps the definition of the word “music” in the dictionary needs to be revised ASAP, for “Enki’s Age Approaches” has near-nigh tarnished the definition of the word, and the fact that this is the first demo by this South American band gives me grave cause for concern. Surely after their first attempt they’d have realised that something was seriously wrong with the music they were writing? Obviously not.

The mixing on this demo is dire. The drums are far too high in the mix to the extent that Tzelmoth might as well have just recorded some drum tracks and released them instead of even bothering to record guitars and vocals. Ironically they went some way to doing this with the fifth track as that was just a drum recording, for all of 15 seconds. And please don’t get me started on the guitars, it’s as if it’s just one continuous note being played over a whole track at a time, making for tracks that get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves.

To be able to draw a single positive from this demo is proving extremely difficult, though by clutching at some very distant straws it could be said that a positive is that the only way is up from here on out! I can’t really see music getting much worse at all, even if I strained my mind to come up with something. It might have been better if they just didn’t record anything and stayed in the rehearsal room until their playing wasn’t causing the dog to pine.

As a final bit and byte, it might have been a better idea to have named this demo “My Death Approaches”, because I feel like I’ve just stuck one foot in my own grave. I’m off to listen to some music that might dig me out of this horrible mess.

Smell The Stench, looks like you’ve got a band that needs signing.

Agreed. It's when the average is less 4 that you know there's a problem.

Getting threepointers is pretty bad though.

I have to be honest with you and admit that I wrote a large portion of this review from very distant memory, only from what I remembered from hearing the album just once about six or seven years ago.

I'm not sure if this breaks rules, but in droneriot's review for In Flames' Lunar Strain, he says:



Come on now. It's pretty obvious that he doesn't remember what the album sounds like because he doesn't talk about the music hardly at all, despite the long length of the review. It's mostly just a strange essay about bands changing their sound and selling out. The review isn't helpful at all for someone who wants to read about the album. He mentions Iron Maiden and Darkthrone just as much as he mentions In Flames in the review, which doesn't make much sense to me because the album doesn't sound like either of those bands. Anyway, not sure if this is nuke-worthy, but it's pretty fucking useless.

I guess you missed all the parts where he ties it together and the review gives you an accurate description of the experience of listening to that album.