![]() Like the aforementioned Converge and Dillinger, it all sounds like a mess to begin with, but – and to quote Gremlins: to hear one has only to listen – a little time spend and Pupil Slicer will deliver great rewards, both intellectually and slacking the primal desire to get into the pit.įor there is a dark psychedelia hiding among the jazzy breakdowns and black metal sympathies. ![]() Mirrors is very much a both/ and record in that it is both cerebral and visceral at the same time. Husk’s stabbed chords and fuzzed bass against Wounds’ devastating hits in which every syllable lands like punches from a heavy-weight boxer. Husk and Wounds Upon my Skin revisit the idea of monumental groove in slower, grinding tracks, reminiscent of Pig Destroyer and both featuring some more-orthodox chugging. There’s no little bounce to be heard within the rampaging L’Appel Du Vide, and as the track hurtles to its conclusion it does so in an unnerving, synthesised drone. The guitar sound on Stabbing Spiders is true to its title Panic Defence plays out a spastic rhythm and closes with something akin to 70s low budget horror and Vilified’s lo-fi drum supports a track that sees itself pushed to the limits of where music transcends into something else altogether.Īlthough Pupil Slicer operate mainly in the post-hardcore/ mathcore area, they are not in any way wanting to limit themselves to a single genre. Mirrors is interspersed with short blasts between the main tracks, none of which last more than two minutes, but add to the uncanny nature of the record. Once Martyrs kicks in it is a frenzy of dissonant guitar work, polyrhythmic drums and fuzzed-up bass think Converge or Dillinger as disparate musical passages crash into each other and the screamo vocals reveal something of a schizophrenic aspect to the proceedings. If you’ve managed to catch the taster-track, L’Appel Du Vide or the recently releases single, Wounds Upon My Skin, you should be pretty familiar with the place Pupil Slicer are coming from and how unrelentingly they are in the execution. ![]() For there is something not of this Earth in the Banshee-wails of Kate Davies in the way she caresses her guitar one moment, conjuring some fragile, uplifting notes before going all Cruella Deville on the poor instrument and wringing terrified screams from the six-strings. ![]() ![]() This was also an experiment in production, being our first track recorded in a bigger budget studio and we really enjoyed the more fluid process of the track evolving whilst we were recording, with tweaks to all the parts occuring up until the last note was tracked, trying to get the best out of the runtime.There’s an otherworldly hum at the start of Martyrs, the first track on Pupil Slicer’s debut record, that fairly well sets the scene for the carnage about to ensue. I hope that people will get some catharsis out of listening to the music as I have in creating it. It's been a hard few years for everyone during the pandemic and the idea behind the track was to capture the experience of being in a catastrophising cycle of anxiety and depression that keeps getting worse no matter what you do, through metaphors of thermal runaway that occurs in stars which leads to supernovas. Speaking to Kerrang!, Pupil Slicer singer/guitarist Katie Davies had this to say about the song: Pupil Slicer and The Armed each released one of our favorite punk albums of 2021, so it's awesome to learn that Pupil Slicer have just teamed up with The Armed's Cara Drolshagen for a new song, "Thermal Runaway." It's a killer dose of the kind of intense mathcore that Pupil Slicer offered up on their Mirrors LP, but a little more melodic, and Cara sounds truly great with Pupil Slicer. ![]()
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