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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.
nah_
80

Consume Red is like an apocalyptic nightmare you can’t wake from. A desert where the sand piles on top of that lifeless body till you sink between the limiting dust. There is something so powerful and beautiful in the leisurely exposure of the brightening and harsh sun. A force so strong you can full the weight of its sound pull on your skin. But not only grating is Consume Red’s sound; it’s almost as if a cry for help as the whiny, loud saxophones resemble an almost beautiful ... read more

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.

TBKS1
100

I can't think of any other album that has given me this much of a rush compared to this. Pretty much feels like an hour of waiting for an invasion, or a war to begin, while the chaos unfolds throughout the rest of the album before finally imploding on itself and destroying everything around you. Absolutely essential listening.

bigman1441
65

???

duchess21
100

yeah they weren't lying, that red sure did consume

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Track List

1Consume Red
57:00
90
Total Length: 57 minutes
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Added on: September 29, 2017