Man, I remember when I found this album about half a year ago and it had less than 10k views on YT. Now all these Mr. Incredible memes and the YouTube algorithm has made my obscure, unhinged, noisy, trve kvlt black ambient album too mainstream. All we need now is for TikTok users to start twerking to Dead Before Death and we can say that Emit is a true normie band.
In all seriousness though, I've always felt like this EP tries too hard to be edgy. It's like Abruptum but taken to such an ... read more
…What is this?
So, I found out about this project through a YouTube video by Catalyst which was called the darkest black metal album and I was kind of intrigued, so I listened to it and… it is a thing alright. It is a dark sounding album. That part is accurate. But it isn’t that good.
The production is fine, I guess. It is mixed well and you can hear most of the stuff, even if it sounds noisy as fuck. The instrumentals are… something. Sometimes the riffs work. ... read more
This album is horrifying and genuinely chilling in some of the most abrasive and harrowing black metal and black noise songs I’ve heard before in my entire life. However, outside of being extremely scary sounding and very noisy, this album doesn’t offer much of substance. Through distorted screaming that really never lasts long enough to be considered super impressive or even annoying, this album is mainly just not well produced riffs and black ambience that really just gets boring ... read more
This is basically the pulse demon of Black Noise from what I've seen. Emit have some actual cred in terms of the evolution of the genre but are unfortunately treated more as a novelty then an actual artist. Kinda unfortunate but they're Nazis so I don't feel bad (Pls pirate if you're interested). The Album itself is pretty minimalist and mostly consists of spooky loud guitars and scream. The atmosphere is actually very solid, however. For it's length I'd so ... read more
| 1 | The Pain Of Bleeding 2:11 | 41 |
| 2 | Dead Before Death 8:07 | 44 |
| 3 | Communications With Shadows 4:21 | 39 |
| 4 | Unknown I (Greets Me Again) 10:26 | 34 |