TheDownGoing – AThousandYearsOfDarkness

After the success TheDownGoing enjoyed on a multitude of blogs and zines, including this one , with their previous Untitled  EP, they have returned with another release. Now with a title.

AThousandYearsOfDarkness is this Australian duo at their best, with a nice slimline CD case and  an empty booklet that is only printed on one side for the sake of front cover art work, a list of 12 tracks and lyrics. 

Matthias Huxely, the guy you hear doing the vocals, is almost reaching to the depths of now more-than-dead Grind icon Seth Putnam. Even the music sometimes hints at the likes of AxCx, but there is a difference for sure, and more than I’m suggesting. Destructive and volatile  is TheDownGoing’s sudden discharge of crude blasts that on occasion come near actual song structures, yet these Aussies always avoid concluding any musicality that you might try to discover. 

In just over 10 minutes you’ ll get an unadulterated wall of high craze all-abrasive Noise Grind that knows no equal. A total lack of cohesion that brings no halt for you to simply sit and listen. AThousandYearsOfDarkness demands you to be attentive and suck it all in, because it’s over before you know it. That’s how it is and that’s how it should be. If you like that sort of thing then AThousandYearsOfDarkness is a Noise freaks delight.