Une Balle dans le Pied literally means “a bullet in the foot”, so the equivalent of our “shooting yourself in the foot”. There’s no suggestion that Throane has done this with this EP, which promises black metal, doom, noise and dark ambience in the window of 13 minutes playing time.
No time to waste then, and we’re soon hammering and roaring and creating a vast wall of sound. Distorted murder is how I’d summarise it. Did I mention there’s a strong industrial edge? In fact, there’s an everything edge that is nightmarish and violent. It’s heading off at pace but what’s most impressive is the layered sound with indistinct noise from a decidedly dodgy world in the background. It slows down and there is strident punishment being meted out, with a lot of screams and suffering going on. And then it is momentarily and eerily still. This goes on for longer than I expected before the anticipated explosion and sound of rocks, people, everything being crushed systematically in an industrial-cosmic-ambient way. The violent wall of sound and suffering continue. Cosmic waves ensue, and we head of briefly down an eastern mystical path before the world breaks open again and our eardrums are burst if we choose to have this on maximum volume. Dark forces descend once more in this world of mass murder and chaotic destruction. The repeated sound of a siren suggests we should be on high alert. It’s a fair shout.
“Une Balle dans le Pied” is like having a quick fix of cosmic violence. Short and not so sweet.
(7.5/10 Andrew Doherty)
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