Plague Beasts

2014 release, the third album from this band led by Dutch Avant-Metal madman Mories. On PLAGUE BEASTS, Mories delivers a ferocious affront to Black Metal form and structure, combining his otherworldly strain of sweeping Symphonic Black Metal with bursts of intense electronic chaos, waves of nebulous synthesizer and spastic rhythmic violence that, at times, feels more like something you'd hear off of a Planet Mu 12'. More than anything else from Mories, this stuff is closest in spirit to the malevolent necro-industrial and fractured drug-fueled machine-ecstasies of bands like Aborym, Blacklodge, Dodheimsgard, Mysticum, and Abigor. But as with anything that this guy is involved with, PLAGUE BEASTS seethes with a deliriously demonic atmosphere entirely it's own.