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90
AllMusic
From the deliberately provocative opening gesture of sampling the Korean sacred musician Kim Suk Chul, Ground Zero slowly interrupts the hojok with random sounding chaos.
maryfreegirl
95

Pov: you're at a concert but they're renovating a building near the venue
(this sounds fcked up, i love it)

knewnie
90

Consume Red is... colossal. it is a titan of strength, of sound, of density. building from a place so small, Consume Red, over the course of an hour, expands like the first moments of the universe in slow-motion - growing exponentially bigger every moment, full of volatile, red-hot particles whizzing around you at light-speed. it's like a screenshot into the world nanoseconds after a nuclear bomb's detonation. twisted, mangled, melted wires, destructive power, the end of the world. the end of ... read more

Houdanny
89

Feels like an hour of waiting for a Nuclear bomb to just, destroy everything around you. Just absolutely apocalyptic.

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liszt
86

My ears hurt so badly

SunKil_Attack
55

This was so much noise man 🫩 I’m so glad it’s finally done

VirtualAmnesiac
85

AHHHH!!! THE HORROR!!!

Consume Red by Ground-Zero is easily one of most terrifying and anxiety inducing listening experiences I’ve ever had. The album mainly consists of a hojok repeating one short riff for the majority of the piece with more and more sounds getting piled on overtime, jabs of harsh noise and some sort of plucked Korean folk instrument appear in the first half not to break up the repetitiveness, but to simply add to the chaos and uncertainty. Eventually the track breaks ... read more

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1Consume Red
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Total Length: 57 minutes
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