Evilyn, featuring members of Malignancy, Exist, Norse, Thoren, have created dissonant death metal that is mind-numbingly heavy. Normally bands playing this kind of music focus on the technicality or atmosphere and either way go about it in a comparatively languid fashion, weaving a tenuous web of hypnotic riffs. Evilyn do that too, the only difference being that they bludgeon you in the head while doing so for some reason. With music so complex, they believe in hammering the point home. No Clean Singing premiered a new skull-opening track which can be found AT THIS LINK.
"...a fascinating union of stark contrasts. In part it’s primitive, brutish, and unforgiving (the vocals are themselves bestially brutish), but it’s also remarkably intricate and elaborate
Evilyn have created an atypical death metal album which is at once monolithic, alien and formidable. Anthony Lipari of Thoren fame has put together quite a lineup for the band's debut full length, roping in members of Malignancy, Exist, Norse and even taking the assistance of Coma Cluster Void's Jeanne Comateuse who has been instrumental in arranging, mixing and crafting the mesmerizing album artwork for the release. The music they've concocted is unbearably heavy, with riffs like obelisks of impermeable concrete slabs tearing through the earth's crust, rising up with a pattern that can only be deciphered after multiple listens. The pacing too seems erratic, sometimes staggered, the feeling akin to stumbling through a labyrinthine minefield that impales upon contact. It is simultaneously dissonant, twisted, technical and crushing, and as confounding as things invariably get, they leave the listener coming back for more in an attempt to demystify this phenomenon. Ostensibly familiar-sounding but pulverizing and otherworldly in nature, Evilyn's debut full length is not to be missed.