Hierarchies are taking their death metal on a different plane altogether. As mentioned in our announcement statement, they play intricate, mind-warping death metal that’s both technical and dissonant, and dutifully soaked in rot and slime. It’s thrilling to delve into their demented world and attempt to decipher all the carefully orchestrated madness and make sense of so much that seems to be happening there and almost at the same time, as though it’s taking place in different albeit overlapping dimensions. Listen to a couple of songs AT THIS LINK.
Hierarchies (US) – Self-titled (Dissonant/Technical Death Metal)
Members of Acausal Intrusion and Dwelling Below conspire amongst themselves to create dissonant/technical death metal that pushes the limits of reality. With music being this intricate, strangely intuitive and visceral, it blurs the point where the magnification of their music ends and the imagination takes over. It’s a dark, murky, nightmarish dive into a realm where trajectories from multiple dimensions manifest to intersect and overlap before dissipating, taking different temporal forms. Nothing is permanent in their world; the tunes change every few seconds and so does everything around them – the implications are in real-time and catastrophically mind-melting. It’s a downward spiral of your consciousness where the out-of-control thoughts overwhelm and overpower, and take you on a one-way trip to incessant hallucinations and inevitable madness. Innumerable riffs are piled on top of one another first frantically, then slowly to allow for them to be properly seared into memory so that they can haunt you in turns for the rest of your life. Hierarchies have, on only their debut, created a truly frightening album not merely outwardly but one that is also psychologically scarring for the listener, and endlessly fascinating all the same.
For fans of – Acausal Intrusion, Dwelling Below, Pyrrhon, Evilyn, ChaosMotion, Wormed, Plague Rider
Line up –
Nicholas Turner (Dwelling Below, Acausal Intrusion) – Guitar
Anthony Wheeler (Dwelling Below, Hollowed Idols) – Bass
Jared Moran (Dwelling Below, Acausal Intrusion) – Drums and vocals
Mixed by Nick Turner at Malevolent Sound Studios
Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios
Artwork by Belial NecroArts
Track listing –
1. Entity
2. Consecrate Phenomenon
3. Dimension
4. Twilight Tradition
5. Abstract
6. Complexity Parallels
7. Subtraction
8. Vultures
Release date – January 17th, 2024