PROUSTED

Obscure experimental dark hardcore punk entity Prousted have risen from the distant yet flourishing punk scene in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a sound of puzzling dread and of rife negativity. The band derives its enigmatic namesake from the later life period of French writer Marcel Proust, who, in his final years, became increasingly recluse and self-isolated from the world, allegedly going so far as to lining the bedroom which he never left with cork in an effort to achieve a condition of complete sensorial isolation from the outside world. This is the state which the band attempts to convey with its music, discharging a blistering, cold, and alienating sensorial assault that devours all light from the listeners surroundings and obliterates their senses to reduce them to a state of terrified, detached and traumatized isolation. To achieve this grim design Prousted have opted for a destroyed and shattered production quality and enacted an experimental fusion of styles which brings together the anger and bitterness of dark and violent hardcore punk bands in the vien of Siege or Dropdead, with the chaos and negativity of black/war metal bands like Revenge or Blasphemy. This unison of rabid and sickening rawness juxtaposed to the band’s unique and sophisticated fusion of genres has materialized an alienating and caustic collision of sounds designed to face the listener with the most crippled and overwhelming states of terror.