You probably won’t see a lot of labels starting the year off with one of their most inaccessible releases, but that’s how we roll. The debut album of Hierarchies, from members of Acausal Intrusion and Dwelling Below, will make your head spin. It’s ‘ultra dissonant’ death metal as Angry Metal Guy writer put it in his review. And it’s really good too if you’re into this kind of thing. Now that it’s streaming in full, it’s time for you all to get a free lobotomy session. Stream it on Bandcamp and YouTube for now.
| PRESS – ► “Hierarchies smashes expectation, comes out of nowhere” – Sputnik Music 4.1/5 https://www.sputnikmusic.com/ ► “has the advantage of not having limits within its music” – Metallerium 8.5/10 https://www.metallerium.com/ ► “An utterly blistering display of intensity and craziness the likes of which are downright schizophrenic in nature” – Head-banger Reviews https://headbangerreviews.com/ ► “a very solid slab of ‘ultra-dissonant’ death metal” – Angry Metal Guy https://www.angrymetalguy.com/ ► “we are talking about a special album” – Depart 8/10 https://depart.gr/hierarchies- ► “a banger of an album that is technical without being pretentious and flashy” – Metal Temple 8/10 https://metal-temple.com/ ► “have an exciting future in extreme avant-garde metal” – Rocking https://www.rocking.gr/ ► “waves of devastating raw power” – Acta Infernalis 80/100 https://actainfernalis.com/ ► “those who love things like this will find it wonderful” – Broken Tomb https://www. ► “aimed at those who enjoy death metal that is different, out of the ordinary, intricate and with an extra twist” – Necromance Magazine https://necromance.eu/ |
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, Chaos Motion, 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