In a nutshell, Viscera is a relentless and heavy barrage of staccato beats, punctuated with tense, minimal melodies and harsh noise. Like the other review, aside from the one semi-miss on the CD ("Mindless Brutal Apparatus") the album latches on to you at the first sound and doesn't stop pummeling. Unlike many other artists in the loose genre of rhythmic noise, many of these songs are marginally similar, which sets up a neat contrast between the songs' inherently chaotic nature. I can listen to this for ..
Review by: Mark Teppo, Igloo Magazine (www.igloomag.com)(09.22.05) There are, in my book, two types of rhythmic noise: (1) noise that might have some rhythm buried under all the eardrum-shredding static and (2) rhythm that is built from noisy instrumentation -- industrial machinery, spastic plastic, eructating radio transmitters and biochemical neural pulses. Pneumatic Detach returns to Hive Records (they were Hive's first non-compilation release) with the furiously anthemic Vis·Cer·A, a record of the sec..
