As previously confirmed, Crucial Blast will poison the reservoir of humankind this Spring with the release of Plague Beasts, the punishing third full-length from CLOAK OF ALTERING, one of the many monikers/projects of Dutch noise architect, Maurice de Jong, a.k.a. Mories.
Widely known within
the darkest recesses of the extreme music underground for his works in Gnaw
Their Tongues, Seirom, Aderlating, Mors Sonat, De Magia Veterum and more, with
CLOAK OF ALTERING, Mories channels his deep fascination with the more
mutated realms of electronically-damaged symphonic and industrial black metal
into a brutally fragmented form of mechanized pandemonium. The man's most
twisted COA concepts yet come snarling forth on his Crucial Blast debut,
Plague Beasts; seven new movements resulting in a thirty-eight minute
blackwarped techno-celestial mindfuck.
Ahead of its release,
curiously brave scribes at the American Aftermath colony have scrutinized and
disbursed a sample from CLOAK OF ALTERING's Plague Beasts, with
the works' middle track, "Chaos Magician Of The Abyss," issuing the following
statement on their findings: "This is yet another solo project by Gnaw Their
Tongues only man Mories except this time around we get more black metal goodness
with less of the noise. Of course, being a product of Mories, it's still odd and
off its rocker, but it's an amazing tune nonetheless."
The opening/title
track to the album is also playing at the Crucial Blast Bandcamp alongside
preorders; tune in and get nuked HERE.
With Plague
Beasts, Mories/CLOAK OF ALTERING delivers a ferocious affront to
black metal form and structure, combining his otherworldly strain of sweeping
symphonic black metal with bursts of intense electronic chaos, waves of nebulous
synthesizer and spastic rhythmic violence that, at times, feels more like
something you'd hear off of a Planet Mu 12", at times resembling some twisted
nightmare version of prog rock keyboard freak-outs, or vintage 16-bit game
soundtracks being fused to the gristle and graveyard stink of second wave black
metal. More than anything else from Mories, this stuff is closest in spirit to
the malevolent necro-industrial and fractured drug-fueled machine-ecstasies of
bands like Aborym, Blacklodge, Dodheimsgard, Mysticum, and Abigor. But as with
anything that this guy is involved with, Plague Beasts seethes with a
deliriously demonic atmosphere entirely its own.
Plague
Beasts will be set loose
via digital delivery and six-panel CD digipak on April 29th.
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