Nefarious Scintillations [CD]

Dead and Dripping is back with another album of mind-warping, reality-deconstructing music. One-man crew Evan Daniele, who was already playing everything on the albums so far, has gone ahead and even created the artwork for this album that manages to replicate the intricate nature of the music along with some kind of hallucinogenic quality that it induces. The music is often slower, deliberate, as if to create a hypnotic effect aided by use of repetition, and with that the songs can go on for as long as nine minutes without seeming cumbersome as is almost always the case with the brutal death metal subgenre where lengthy songs go. Dead and Dripping is doing something novel in this space which begs to be heard with all it's quirks including the Demilich-esque croaks to go with music sounding just as surreal and twisted. It's an album that is painstakingly composed with thought and effort put into every single aspect of it and with all of it done in a refreshingly organic manner. "Nefarious Scintillations" is a tour-de-force for the style and a testament to the dedication and prowess of one-man bands. For fans of - Demilich, Wicked Innocence, Wormed, Defeated Sanity, Mortal Decay, Fathomless Ritual, Suffocation