What One Becomes

by SUMAC

What One Becomes cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 June 2016
  • Label: Thrill Jockey
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 58:46
  • Community rating: 3.8/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Faith Coloccia, Brian Cook, Nick Yacyshyn

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Former Isis frontman Aaron Turner's extreme metal trio completely obliterates structural conventions on their punishing sophomore album. Recording with Kurt Ballou, the project utilizes terrifyingly heavy, constantly shifting sludge metal riffs that purposefully avoid traditional groove or resolution, leaning heavily into jagged dissonance and free improvisation. It is a deeply exhausting, mathematically complex masterclass in avant-garde heavy music.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, dissonant, atmospheric, complex, harsh-vocals

Tracklist

  1. Image of Control (I) (3:57)
  2. Image of Control (II) (5:59)
  3. Rigid Man (I) (5:23)
  4. Rigid Man (II) (5:11)
  5. Clutch of Oblivion (I) (5:39)
  6. Clutch of Oblivion (II) (5:20)
  7. Blackout (I) (9:57)
  8. Blackout (II) (6:53)
  9. Blackout (III) (0:34)
  10. Will to Reach (9:48)

Credits

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