Doom metal is always going to be best experienced by being played with headphones alone late at night to create the perfect atmosphere to drown out the physical world to make a type of personal journey through bleak landscapes, in my mind. And the album Droid Intelligence understands that concept to a T. Burn Thee Insects are an extremely talented duo consisting of father and son Lucust and Mitchell French, who hail from the Mojave Desert, where the heat and sweat just burn through your head leading into madness and destruction or leave you a withered shell.
Constant expansion
and retraction of every instrument are a basic theme present throughout
the album, but with enough variation in sonics and mood that it never
seems tired or monotonous.
Album opener "Hydroponics" evokes
the study of a dissonant mood with powerful drums and guitars, combined with a
despondent vocal style not dissimilar to that of the great Josh Homme,
although out of inspiration, not mimicking in any way. The general
feeling and mood never lets up or changes from a building charmed primal
drive for creating psychedelic tones, not like 'flower children of
the hippie era,' but more like those searching for euphoria from bending and
cutting mundane living down to a bloody pulp to make it their
own.
"Distorted Seclusion" continues with drones and a magical
boredom only formed from seeking more from staring at oblivion and
carving out a way to find solace in a world that casts you out. "A Swarm
Of Bees" ends the album with the whining screech of a motor finally
burning up after traversing through the Mojave itself, reminding us not
to stare too deep into the sun. You might just burn your brain out.
Currently
the Burn Thee Insect's Bandcamp feature not only this and their debut
album, but also their EP entitled Head to the Floor, where they began to
carve out their new genre-defining sound.
~Richard
For Fans Of; Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Them Crooked Vultures, Sleep, Goatsnake
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