Jongens en meisjes, jullie moeten allemaal
Knekelput luisteren. Dat zeg ik niet alleen, maar ook het internet:
Scream Blast Repeat, 8/10 (Album of the week, Nr 3 debut album of 2022, Nr 4 avant-garde album of 2022):
"The metal world needs artists that have no regard for rules or conventions. Knekelput are the type of band that experimental jazz musicians can enjoy as much as the black metal crowd. Dutch pioneers,
Dodecahedron, came after them but released their music to the public at a time when Knekelput let theirs sit on a hard drive. ‘De Bron’ uses the bizarre guitar phrasing of
Frank Zappa and the rhythms of krautrock to underpin the death metal splatter. Ask if you’ve heard anything like this? What about the
Ved Buens Ende meets
Morbid Angel concoction of ‘Een Schemerig Pad’? These comparisons are near futile, but how else can you comprehend the sophistication of this mirage of spontaneity?"
Lords of Metal, 8/10:
"Een zwartgallig iemand zou durven zeggen dat door al dat eclecticisme de band nog steeds op zoek is naar een juiste identiteit. Laat nu juist al die verrassingen en genre-overschrijdende invloeden de identiteit van Knekelput zijn. Leuk om nog eens een band te horen die durft te experimenteren en daarbij een aangenaam resultaat laat horen."
Grizzly Butts:
"These are not smooth-brained vibes we’re receiving within the inventive yet entirely stripped-down progressive extreme metal exploration of this record. Some genius-level knots are tied between dissonant/avant-garde black metal and meandering semi-technical death metal precision."
The Killchain:
"Savage atonal death metal swoops and writhes within eerie atmospherics, leading into the gloomy hauntings of ‘Dualiteit’ where
Gorgutsian death metal fights with smothering black metal atmospherics for position. There’s so many obvious points of reference; the uncomfortable brutality of
Ulcerate in the fiery ‘Waan’, the black anarchy and regal uneasiness of prime
Deathspell Omega seeping through ‘Maalsteen’, even touches of post metal in the glorious opening tones of ‘Utopie’. You’ll never expect the next track, the next section of a song even; Knekelput keep you guessing throughout. There’s a number of weird interludes too, just to keep you on your toes; the discordant 80s video game noises of ‘Vormen’, the always welcome drone of a didgeridoo on ‘Kwartententoonstelling’, nothing is what you expect it to be.
‘Teloorgang’ is an uncomfortable, challenging record that has so many high points that you can’t afford to miss out on it. Unconscionably heavy in places, with a real knack for getting their riffs into the darkest and most uneasy crevices, Knekelput would have struggled to write anything better as a first release. ‘Teloorgang’ isn’t a record I’m soon going to forget.."
Nou, luisteren dus
[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door Kramy op 21-12-2022 14:27]
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