Torture - "Enduring Freedom" (Full Album)
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Artist: Torture
Release: 4 - "Enduring Freedom"
Label: Self-released
Year: 2023
Country: USA (motherfucker!!!)
1. Overture 2001 0:00
2. Blinding Ignorance 2:25
3. Agonized Desperation 5:39
4. Blood On The Sand 8:39
5. Years In Turmoil 15:39
6. Legacy Of Devastation 20:56
7. Opulent Sowings... 27:09
8. ...Nourishing Adversity 33:00
9. Finale I. "Bloodshed (Red)" 39:08
10. Finale II. "Wounded/For P.K. Reprise (Blue)" 45:31
11. Finale III. "Crosses (White)" 49:04
12. Blinding Ignorance (Demo) 1:05:31
13. Agonized Desperation (Demo) 1:09:22
Torture is a one-man death metal act out of Chicago, fluid with regard to subgenre but highly consistent on a conceptual and aesthetic level, where his works deal with the forgotten atrocities, moral failures, and enduring consequences of American military (mis)adventurism in the Middle East. This album, his fourth, was released on 9/11/23, the 22-year anniversary of “the event that shocked the world & started a decades-long struggle where material objects outweigh human rights (as they usually do)” (in Torture’s words). It is themed around the American military campaigns that were laundered as moral imperatives in response to the fateful events of that day.
Musically, “Enduring Freedom” presents a highly decomposed-and-reconstituted style of slamming death metal, taking cues from the most ignorant corners of that genre (and not ignoring its “-core” kin-genres-deathcore and beatdown specifically-which were prominent around the time the events of the album took place) as well as from high-minded modern classical music. This combination sounds pretty bad, but it works perfectly, and here’s how. This album is really built around slams; it is, at its essence, a sort of grimoire of breakdowns. Of course, slam as a genre has always had the flavor of “riff salad” about it, but “Enduring Freedom” takes this compositional approach to its logical end-point. Almost all of the “in-between” riffs have been eliminated. Instead, Torture gives us a slam, then develops it into a slightly different one, then varies it again, and again, and again, until eventually we’re back where we started (or somewhere technically different but similar enough to evoke a payoff). The end product is, as one RYM commenter put it, a kind of “serial slam”-like if Terry Riley, on one of his trips to Asia, discovered Down from the Wound and collaborated on an album with them. So, while this is not “technical death metal” on the level of the individual riff or drum pattern, from a zoomed-out compositional perspective it is highly technical.
You’ll notice that the album’s production is somewhat austere. While this stripped-down style might damage an average slam offering’s atmosphere without contributing anything positive to righten the balance, Torture’s compositions actually benefit from the clarity of the final product. The guitars chug almost exclusively in the lowest registers of the instrument (I say “almost” because there is an occasional arpeggiated flourish or pinch harmonic), and there are more than a handful of extremely chromatic riffs on the record, so it pays to be able to hear the subtleties that separate frets 1 and 2. Furthermore, the clean production helps the intricate and creative drum work shine. The production also feels digital in the way that so much death metal in the early 2000s did, which matches the larger aesthetic vision for the album. So, in my calculation, the production helps more than it hurts.
Finally, if you listen to the end, you’ll hear what is obviously the most unusual and noteworthy aspect of the album-the tape-music-style Finale “Crosses (White)”. While ending an album with a 16-minute minimalist drone à la Gavin Bryars might be seen by slam purists as incorrigibly lame, I think it works perfectly, capping off the album with a cathartic dirge that is, if nothing else, unforgettable. Do yourself a favor and don’t just skip ahead to this track-let it come naturally. It won’t sound as good if you listen in isolation. (Though I think the album is best listened to with that track as the closer, I’ve included the additional demos provided by the artist both for the sake of completeness and because they sound sick).
I could have said a lot more about the subject matter and imagery that this album deals with-and not just as an opportunity to spout off on politics, but because that imagery contributes greatly to the total aesthetic package presented by this album. Instead, I’ll let the listener draw his own conclusions on that front, adding only that any serious American-patriot or critic-ought to appreciate the magnitude of our nation’s hunger and prepare himself to account for the price of satiating it. Ditto everything about “art” that Torture says on the Bandcamp, too. As always, please buy the album from the artist.
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Torture is a one-man death metal act out of Chicago, fluid with regard to subgenre but highly consistent on a conceptual and aesthetic level, where his works deal with the forgotten atrocities, moral failures, and enduring consequences of American military (mis)adventurism in the Middle East. This album, his fourth, was released on 9/11/23, the 22-year anniversary of “the event that shocked the world & started a decades-long struggle where material objects outweigh human rights (as they usually do)” (in Torture’s words). It is themed around the American military campaigns that were laundered as moral imperatives in response to the fateful events of that day.
this guy gets it!
That’s interesting, know where i can find the lyrics?
PURE SLAM
i cannot stop listening to this album
Same
It’s crazy knowing this tone was achieved on a Marshall combo amp
How do u know it?
this is as fascinating as it is killer and you have to have balls of fucking tungsten carbide to just straight up name your band Torture
Eh
This is what slam should still sound like.
Genuinely some of the best Slam I've heard to come out in the past 15 years at least 💯.
Boul God dropping a certified wigga classic... unheard of
Finally some good ass slam that takes me back to the days when I was listening to cephalotripsy in high school.
slamming tunes i dig it 😎
why is this almost more raw than the MTD album by devourment
100% is
A Wigger Slam Wednesday must listen
I want a shirt and flag of cover. 💯🔥🎶 this ish dope, all the way play 🔥 PEACE
We definitely need more bands for this specific type of genre groovy brutal death metal kinda reminds me of internal bleeding and pyrexia with a old school vibe to it
Survival slam
This album is one of the best pieces of music I’ve heard in at least 15 years. Brilliant piece of work.
no se puede dejar de escuchar esta mierda!!
There's still hope for mankind
y’all ever hear a piece of music so ignorant and hard you have no choice but to laugh out loud?
this is sick lol
murica fightin for zionism!
AOTY 2023. shit was 100% made by a 45 year old Marine with 11 confirmed civilian kills and severe PTSD
So... Pure Joy?
bro what the fuck 🤩
somehow has that mp4 filter
A lost art tbh
SURPRISE WERE GONNA FIGHT!!!!🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫
Норм!!!
Most ignorant slam I have heard in a loooooooooooooong time
Where can i buy a cd?
Хуета, но оригинальная!😂
Every song sounds the same lol
pay attention
@@spitgorge2021 I have , it's boring 😴
@@spitgorge2021 Also have. There's not much variety between songs outside a few seconds here and there. The best tracks are the longer ones near the end of the record. Respect for this being a one-man-album, but it's still pretty simplistic. Not bad by any means, but nothing really groundbreaking either with the album
@@merlercerwe are talking about slam here lol
anyone else listen to this shit on full blast with speakers everyday?
It's gonna help keep me awake on 3rd shift tonite!