Sentient Ruin is honored to seal its allegiance with enigmatic dutch avant-garde black/death metal deformation Plague Organ, as we ready the release of their debut album absurdity "Orphan" on August 28 2020 on cassette tape and digital formats. The staggering release features unrivaled artwork by Stefan Thanneur of renowned french experimental death metal alchemists Chaos Echoes.
Leading up to its imminent release, Invisible Oranges premiered the full stream of the single-track forty-minute album, stating that Orphan" “takes black metal and distills it to a primal, raging sound -- a droning, blasting miasma of sounds and auditory hallucinations.“ - you can read the feature and checkout the stream HERE.
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, Plague Organ’s abhorrent avant-garde/ambient black/death metal deformity"Orphan" is 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 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 are a project by Rene Aquarius (Cryptae, Imperial Cult, Horrid Apparition, Imperial Cult, Sneezing Pus, Celestial Bodies, Dead Neanderthals, etc) and recording engineer Marlon W.. Embracing complete and near-lawless experimentalism, Plague Organ have even abandoned guitars in favor of using bass, drums, and synth to construct an abhorrent aural maze made of hallucinogenic fractals, surreal ambience, and repetitive mantras to enslave and dismantle the listener's psyche. Reference-less and formless, debut LP "Orphan" unfolds like an experimental anomaly with no beginning, end, top, bottom or confines, appearing simply as is, in the instant, and then repeating in an infinite sequence of instances until perception and reference points have been vaporized, time dissolved, and the listener annihilated into a violent trance. Embracing the most cerebral and deviant aspects of the ritualistic and profane, Plague Organ have taken key elements of extreme black and death metal (oppressive atmospheres and arrangements, unrelenting rhythmic violence, repulsive vocals) and bent them out of shape, blending them with experimental ambient, psychedelic abstractism, and free form improvisation to materialize the quintessence of cerebral aural abominations.