“Axiom” review @ Deaf Sparrow zine
http://www.deafsparrow.com/dephosphorus-review-2011.html
Greek Blackened crusties Dephosphorous are politely suggesting that in case you like their music, you purchase a copy of Axiom, their debut recording, which has been released in a beautiful gatefold through 7 Degrees Records. If you want to get a full taste of it without going the illegal route you can head straight over to their site (see below) and download the full of Axiom for free. Chances are, that if you got some taste and a few bucks to spare your inner collector will go for it. We highly recommend it.
Sonically speaking Dephosphorous’ appeal is quite broad. Axiom isn’t exactly a full on black metal attack, but if that’s what you crave for, that’s exactly what you get. Axiom is wild, crazy sounding and still organized. With several dozens of self-contained hellacious passages, like during the most of “Continuum”, a D beat cut that oscillates between out of control ultra violent punk and downright satanic riffage. Meaning galvanized guitars dropping weird tonalities but kept in line by either blast beats or by a beat that’s one revolution short of a blast beat. It’s all very punky, but the coat of blasphemy is oh, so evident.
We live crazy times in the realms of extreme music. All the far out subgenres are coalescing nicely. It takes talent, huevos and effort on the part of the musicians to pull it off. Lucky for them, listeners have grown bolder and more open over the course of the last five years. Had Axiom been released a decade ago it would have been too much of an experimental album. An acquired taste even for those who like their noise left off center. Since this is 2011 and Profound Lore is the hippest label in the underground, Dephosphorous are just du jour.
Take that as you wish, but our assessment is more than positive and even more respectful. When it’s said that this is black metal, that’s just part of the equation, and when it’s said that Dephosphorous is a punk band that rings just as true. All around “On the Verge of An Occurence” we can feel the spikes and the boots up our asses. When Axiom grinds, it really grinds. And in the case of this funky number, it kicks the bucket subliminally and in outer space.
“Axiom” review @ Metalpaths Webzine
http://www.metalpaths.com/reviews/dephosphorus-–-axiom,9427
Axiom: 1.a self-evident truth that requires no proof. 2. a universally accepted principle or rule. 3. Logic, Mathematics: a proposition that is assumed without proof for the sake of studying the consequences that follow from it. These are the definitions of what an axiom is about. The new breed in the metal scene called Dephosphorus is the definition of what is made in order to be special, uncompromising, honest and above all: Hungry for creativity. I cannot see things elsewise because they give me the full right to write what is the only truth. And the truth is that these collective gentlemen came to become some of the best companions you could find for the year of 2011. Without even having to try that much to be more direct.
I am in love with some EP’s that have been released throughout the years. This is a good reason to see any EP with positive outlook from the beginning, as they tend to be better than some full length releases in many cases. In the case of this new uniquity, I only feel this is the beginning, where the band prepares the ground for what is about to follow with their upcoming full length album entitled ‘’Night Sky Transform’’ which will surely cause big surprise to the ones unaware of the band so far. What matters now is the ‘’Axiom’’ EP, the first effort of this power trio, with two of the members already having blasted their way with grindcorers Straighthate in the past and the third colleague belonging to the blackened league called Injekting Khaos.
The result is nothing but outstanding and special, as they managed to create a great mixture of black metal atmosphere with grindcore frenzy and ripping vocals to the verge of madness. Seven tracks lasting a little less than twenty minutes. And this is the only negative thing. I say negative because as soon as the EP is over, you get yourself needing some more material. I already crave for the full length to be released, as I believe this is only the spark that lit the fire in their future to come. ‘’Collimator’’ which opens the album leaves no room for relaxation, leaving you in a state of shock, just before ‘’Continuum’’ takes over and stops even before it begins, being the shortest of the seven tracks (these two could easily be one, they fit perfectly to each other).
‘’Dephosphorus’’ and ‘’Indulge Me In Silence’’ (the longest track of the EP) prepare the ground for what follows, which is the highlight of this release. The finishing trio starting with ‘’On The Verge Of An Occurence’’ (the best track in my opinion, combining Thorns with Napalm Death plus a Voivod touch in it), continuing with ‘’Knife Missile’’ and ending with ‘’The Long Crossing’’ is the best proof why this gatefold 12’’ MLP release must enter your home as soon as possible. It is also amazing the fact that this material has been recorded over a year ago and it sounds as if it is recorded…tomorrow! The production is as clean and dirty it needs in combination to be acknowledged as a plus to their sound and it surely gets you inside the alien atmosphere the want to create.
Adding the facts of the allegorical alien lyrical concept, the divine artwork (especially the ones who will get the vinyl will be astonished by the Axiom tower on the inlay) and the feeling that this band has a certain vision that can only lead to special and pleasant suprises, we can’t help but saying that Dephosphorus will surely be one of the future elite bands in the extreme scene. They have all it takes to achive this. Great lyrics, blasting music, outer spaced vocals, special sound and above all: Identity! They are described as astral grind. It’s all lies, it’s more than astral, it’s universal. I shall leave the last words to the final line of ‘’Collimator’’ just to show you what we are talking about: WHOEVER HEARD OF A MORTAL BODY HAVING AN IMMORTAL SOUL?
Completion of debut album, teaser excerpt streaming now!
We are happy to announce the completion of DEPHOSPHORUS’ debut full-length album “Night Sky Transform”, successor to the critically acclaimed “Axiom” 12”MLP (still available from 7 Degrees Records and ourselves).
It has been recorded, mixed and mastered at Northside Studio with our good friend Miltos Schimatariotis (also responsible for “Axiom”’s mastering), who has also played electronics on a couple of tracks.
Musically our new material is more intense, challenging and aggressive, while still being infused with a timeless atmosphere and transcendental vibes.
The full tracklisting of the “Night Sky Transform” session:
- Uncharted
- Cold Omen
- Starless
- Night Sky Transform
- The Fermi Paradox
- The Astral Putsch part I / Plateau Of Initiation
- Identifying The Encapsulator
- The Astral Putsch part II / Bomb Of Truth
- Stargazing & Violence
- Unconscious Excursion
- Aurora
- Unit
- The Final Computronium
- The Cosmologist
- “Unconscious Excursion” features stellar vocals, lyrics and lead guitars by comrade Ryan Lipynsky (Unearthly Trance, The Howling, Thralldom).
- “Stargazing & Violence” will appear on Hell Comes Home’s split 7”EP series, therefore for the sake of exclusivity it might not be originally included in the album but added on a later edition as a bonus track.
- Tracks #12-14 are destined for a future split-EP/MLP.
The artwork and slayout of the release will be handled by fellow visionnaries Viral Graphics, who have already graced “Axiom” with their magickal craft.
The details of the release have yet to be determined, since we are currently seeking for the appropriate record label.
Until then and as a teaser, “Night Sky Transform”’s opening track “Uncharted” is streaming now at our Bandcamp page!
“Axiom” review @ Discos Inauditos (spanish)
http://www.discosinauditos.com/2011/08/dephosphorus-axiom-7-degrees-2011.html
El hibrido metal punk es el plato del dia. Sino se han dado cuenta, o están visitando los blogs de descarga equivocados o tienen un gusto repudiable.
Los últimos dos o tres años nos han dejado una resaca de lanzamientos que descontroladamente mezclan el metal extremo con el punk mas libidinoso. Es la vertiente del crust la que primero se mezclo con el death metal Sueco, el cual hacia comienzos de siglo hacia agua con un vacio creativo insoslayable. Para muestra de esta tendencia uno tan solo tiene que echarle una ojeada a la discografía de Southern Lord, el sello que fue una vez la dulce morada del doom y que en los últimos meses se ha dedicado casi exclusivamente a editar los sonidos crust-metaleros de Alpinist, All Pigs Must Die, Balaclava y Black Breath.
Hoy en dia, estas combinaciones han tomado forma orgiástica. Todo vale. Personalmente soy del favoritismo hacia aquello punks que mas le entran al black metal. Habiendo experimentado varias de estas propuestas, una cosa queda muy clara: todos los involucrados aprovechan la simplicidad del crust para propulsar su propia agenda. Por lo general, esto se traduce en temas simplistas, de mucha marcha, pero de poca calidad compositiva. Es precisamente por eso que Axiom, de los griegos Dephosphorus sorprende. Su secreto debe de tener algo que ver con sus constantes variables.
Si bien Dephosphorus no hacen camino, lo que si hacen es recorrer un gran trecho. Sus temas varian fluidamente entre el grind taladrante, el crust mas oxidante y el black metal juiciosamente ejecutado. ‘Astrogrind’ le dicen los miembros, como si estuvieramos hablando de musica extrema creada en el espacio.
Dephosphorus se formaron en el 2008 y a pesar de haber editado Axiom en formato vinilo a través del sello alemán 7 Degrees, han optado por ofrecerlo como descarga gratuita. Visite el Facebook de la banda, y entre sus Likes incluyen al sello Profound Lore. Curioso, pues desde la primera vez que escuche este disco pense en el sello Canadiense. Hay definitivamente aqui varios paralelos sonicos.
CVLT Nation’s Blackened Everything mixtape series Vol. IV
CVLT Nation has included “Collimator”, the opening rack of “Axiom” 12″MLP to Vol.IV of their “Blackened Everything” mixtape series. Check it out, it’s full of killer bands!
“Axiom” review @ metal.de (german)
http://metal.de/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=47365
Wie schnöde wäre jetzt eine Anspielung auf die Finanzkrise, aber die Jungs von DEPHOSPHORUS kommen nun mal aus Griechenland und sind doch ganz anders als die blutleeren griechischen Kassen! Verzeiht, aber das musste raus… Kommen wir zur Sache: kaufen! Oder mindestens runterladen, netterweise gibt es das Death-Rumpelding nämlich als Gratisdownload. Dennoch lohnt sich die kleine Investition und ich möchte auch unmittelbar erläutern wieso. Denn “Axiom” gibt es nur als Schallplatte zu erwerben und als solche ist die leider sehr kurze Langrille nochmal um eine ganze Spur geiler, zumal das Gatefold ganz nett aufgemacht ist.
DEPHOSPHORUS spielen angeblich einen ganz innovativen “Astrogrind”. Da dieser Begriff eine ganze Menge Fremdschämpotenzial mit sich bringt und meiner Meinung nach der Musik nicht gerecht wird, möchte ich euch nun erklären, warum ich die Platte eher mit Death Metal bezeichnen würde. Thanos, Panos und Nikos rumpeln und scheppern so engagiert daher, dass einem das Herz in nostalgischer Freude einen kleinen Sprung macht. Das ganze Album ist rhythmisch sehr gekonnt, glänzt mit einiger Abwechslung und springt gekonnt von ultragroovigen Nackenbrechern zu punktgenauen Blasteinlagen. Das hört sich jetzt eigentlich eher nach einer sauber geschleckten Metalcore-Babypopo-Teeniegruppe an – aber neiiiin! “Axiom” ist eine Lifeaufnahme ohne Publikum, praktisch eine Proberaumaufnahme mit dem Charme lang vergangener Zeiten! Über der Aufnahme liegt dauerhaft eine Mattheit, eine Unreinheit, die sie zu einem sehr authentischen Erlebnis werden lässt. Mit anderen Bands vergleichen könnte man DEPHOSPHORUS eigentlich nur innerhalb einzelner Sequenzen. Da erinnert hier mal ein Riff oder Filling an Outros von SEPULTURA aus der “Roots”, da mal eine Minute an die “Under The Sign Of Hell” von GORGOROTH. Und auch einige andere Anleihen aus dem Black oder auch Thrash Metal tun diesem Werk gut, insgesamt ist es roh, ultrabrutal und ehrlich. Wirklich ein prima Death-Knaller, den ich sicherlich nicht nur zu Feiertagen auf dem Plattenteller servieren werde.
Was mir allerdings überhaupt nicht gefällt ist diese Vernarrtheit in die Idee, besonders kosmische Musik zu machen. Stellenweise wirkt “Axiom” gezwungen experimentell mit Synthie-Einschüben, die zwar diskret aber trotzdem störend sind. Auch die gern verwendeten offenen Akkorde und schrägen Fillings geben dem Vinyl kaum einen Astrocharakter, unterbrechen jedoch ziemlich coole Riffs viel zu früh und sind so nützlich wie ein Hühnerknochen quer im Hals. Und besonders schade ist das, weil die Griechischen Talente dieses Theater nun wirklich nicht nötig hätten. Insgesamt ist das Debüt aber gelungen und macht große Hoffnungen auf großartige Musik – vielleicht mit einem kleinen konzeptionellen Richtungswechsel, dann wär’s perfekt…
“Axiom” review @ The Executioner Zine (spanish)
http://executionerzine.com/2011/08/09/dephosphorus-axiom-lp-7-degrees-records-2011/
Tras la disolución de su anterior banda, Straighthate, los señores Thanos Mantas y Panos Agoros (lo habéis adivinado, son griegos, y de la ciudad de Atenas en concreto) dieron forma a Dephosphorus, su nuevo proyecto con el que querían crear música intensa y agresiva, con un trasfondo alegórico y cósmico. Tras algunas demos se les unía Nikos Megariotis, batería de la banda Black/Death Injekting Khaos, para darle un toque más orgánico a su música, y cerraban así la formación que creó “Axion”, siete temas que grabaron en el verano del 2010.
Y estos griegos son un verdadero soplo de aire fresco; un mini LP de casi veinte minutos de duración en el que confluyen las influencias del Grindcore, Crust y Black Metal, así como de la psicodelia doomera que pueden tener Unearthly Trance o Ramesses (por algo llaman a su estilo “Astrogrind”). Temas más bien cortos, sin llegar el más largo a los cuatro minutos, donde un riffing muy Crust/Grind de la vieja escuela (aunque tampoco tan lejano a unos His Hero Is Gone e incluso a algo de Nasum) se encuentra con unas melodías y punteos a medio camino entre el Black nórdico y lo más diabólico del Prog setentero (¿alguien dijo King Crimson?) sobre una base percusiva que se pasea entre los blastbeats y los ritmos aplastantes, para dar forma a composiciones muy oníricas, a pesar de su violenta naturaleza.
“Axiom” es uno de esos discos que debajo de una capa de crudeza y brutalidad tanto a nivel compositivo como de producción (muy limitada y simplista) esconde una creatividad enorme. Pese a su corta duración contienen muchísimos cambios tanto de tempo como de atmósferas, y lo bien que evolucionan estas es toda una demostración de lo bien que saben llevar su música Dephosphorus, porque no me parece en absoluto tarea fácil combinar dos tendencias tan, aparentemente, alejadas. Como decía, la producción está bastante alejada de ser perfecta, es mucho más cercana a como puede sonar un disco de Crust o Black crudo, manteniendo las guitarras bastante agudas y sucias, sintiendo el golpe de las baquetas sobre el parche y no un beat de graves, sin masterizaciones que compacten el resultado… Sincero y sencillo, pero capaz de transportarte al más allá a la velocidad del rayo.
El vinilo es a 45rpm y del diseño del LP se ha encargado Viral Graphics, que ha hecho un trabajo simplemente alucinante tanto en la portada como en la ilustración interior, que de paso han aprovechado para hacer una camiseta. Y mientras tanto ellos ya han grabado catorce nuevos temas para su álbum debut “Night Sky Transform”, así como para un split EP en el que cuentan con la colaboración de Ryan Lipynsky (Unearthly Trance, Thralldom, The Howling Wind) poniendo letras, voces y un solo a un tema. ¿A qué cojones estáis esperando, como mínimo, para descargaros el disco que ofrecen gratuitamente en su web, y de paso luego comprarlo?
“Axiom” review @ Annihilate Next Week
http://annihilatenextweek.blogspot.com/2011/08/demo-submission-week-dephosphorus-axiom.html
I’ve been neglecting my inbox pretty much from the moment I created the account. I just now checked it for the first time in forever. Much to my surprise there was a number of bands contacting me about their demos/releases, and even more to my surprise most of them are pretty good.
First up is Dephosphorus. You’ve probably already heard them as they have been reviewed everywhere from The Living Doorway to Cvlt Nation. These guys totally slay, and I already had Axiom before they ever contacted me. I’m not usually in the business of posting stuff that’s all over the internet already if I can help it, but as an up and coming heavy-hitter who have been working their balls off and have produced an incredible record, I feel inclined to share this with any of my readers who may not have been made privy to this “Astrogrind Masterpiece In 7 Acts.”
Dephosphorus draw influence from all over the spectrums of heavy and grim shit. Band comparisons would be a pretty arduous task, so I’m not gonna touch that one. They are self-described as Astrogrind, which is pretty appropriate, it’s got all the scathing characteristics of grindcore as we know it, but it’s also very atmospheric and breaks the monotony of simple grind with dark sludgy passages and eerie underlying soundscapes.
There’s a little something for everyone in Axiom as long as you’re into banging your head to crucial tunes.
Yet another great “Axiom” review…
In terms of production, although not the overall sound, this is similar to Jon Chang’s Hayaino Daisuki. It’s got that same kind of pillow-over-everything muffle to it, but here it’s really effective. It kind of brings out the band’s sound almost as some sort of ambient grind. This is really weird, like some kind of deconstructed grind. The guitar is really thin sounding, almost unanimously drowned out by the loose rocking style of the blasting drums, with vocals that are a desperate spat out scream. Dephosphorus are Greek, were formed in 2008 and this is their first release. They describe their own sound as Astrogrind, which seems wholly appropriate too be honest. There’s no science fiction here, which that style descriptor kind of suggested to me at first, just a very expansive spaced out approach to Nasum-influenced grind, which I really enjoyed as it also reminded me of Dripping a little, due to the way it’s constructed. The blasting of the really natrual sounding drums is fantastic, whilst the looseness of the bands overall sound is a fantastic antidote if you’ve become numb to the overtly precise nature of a lot of recent death metal. There’s a grandiose tinge to the proceedings (particularly the much slower and drawn out fifth track, ‘Knife Missile’. The addition of some synth sounds in this track really increases the otherworldliness of the music. This is really enjoyable, original sounding grind, recommended to all fans of the genre, or non fans of the genre for that matter.
New reviews for “Axiom”
http://equivoke-mdl.blogspot.com/2011/07/dephosphorus-axiom-2011.html
The guys over at The Living Doorway brought this release to my attention. Dephosphorus are getting glowing reviews all over the place and for good reason. Dubbed “astro grind”, they released this album for free not long ago and promise new stuff very soon as well.
Axiom is an excellent blend of blackened hardcore riffs that melt into death/black metal stylings; like a mash up of Black Arrows of Filth and Impurity with Young and In The Way, but much more than that is to be heard here . It works really well and you can’t really pin them down to one genre for very long. A fantastic album indeed that demands to be listened to on repeat — check them out on bandcamp too.
http://www.zannmusic.com.ar/2011/08/review-dephosphorus-axiom-2011.html
Ok, evidentemente éste es el año en que el Metal extremo y los delirios alucinógenos decidieron unir fuerzas definitivamente. No es que antes no hubiera sucedido (nombres como Skeleton Of God, Cephalic Carnage, Agoraphobic Nosebleed o Portal así lo demuestran), pero en la actualidad parece haber una suerte de rebrote de locura generalizada que, en bandas como Mitochondrion, Baring Teeth, Psudoku, Gigan o Flourishing (entre tantas otras), está alcanzando niveles inéditos de creatividad violenta. Dephosphorus es un trío griego nacido en 2008 y, si nos guiamos por lo expuesto en estos siete temas que conforman su debut discográfico, tienen todo lo necesario para sumarse sin problemas a la lista antes mencionada. Se nota una clara fundación Grindcore en su sonido y el hecho de prescindir de bajista los puede asociar directamente con Discordance Axis o Pig Destroyer, con lo cual ya tendríamos un buen punto de referencia para empezar. En efecto, más allá de las voces podridas, los alaridos, los blast-beats y los riffs carnosos, aquí la cosa se pone bien retorcida e impredecible, con múltiples cambios de ritmo operando al filo del caos absoluto, una guitarra que se expande en intrincados y convulsionados paisajes cósmicos, haciendo gala de una vasta gama de recursos e ideas puestas al servicio de trastornar neuronas y quebrar huesos al mismo tiempo. Y es que, aún teniendo en cuenta la demencia surrealista que desprenden estas composiciones, el trío se las arregla para no perder de vista cierta energía visceral que funciona como perfecto balance y le da un sabor particular a su propuesta. Por momentos, suena casi como si en Napalm Death hubieran logrado resucitar e incorporar a sus filas al inmortal Piggy de Voivod, en otros asoma la cabeza cierto espíritu Blackmetalero a la Deathspell Omega pero cubierto de gruesas capas de alquitrán Sludgero y más adelante pueden hacer pensar en unos Neurosis epilépticos y nerviosos. En fin, material con personalidad propia, creatividad desbocada y la rabia suficiente como para atrapar a cualquier amante del extremismo musical que se precie de tal.
Interview @ Grind & Punishment
The first interview with DEPHOSPHORUS is live ladies and gentlemen! It also features Ryan Lipynsky as a special guest! Check it out!
“Axiom” review @ CVLT NATION
http://www.cvltnation.com/so-sickaxiom-dephosphorus-review/
So check this out…how gnarly is gnarly? Better yet. how epic awesome is epic awesome?? Well, I’m hear to tell you the sounds that DEPHOSPHORUS creates on their debut record Axiom deserve all of these accolades & then some. This band is so sick they produced their own genre called astro grind. So you are probably asking yourself, what the fuck is this? From my point of view, it’s some of the heaviest shit that I have heard lately. Basically, DEPHOSPHORUS are some demented musical scientists that have mixed the torment of black metal, the animalistic power of grindcore, the rabid angst of hardcore, the FTW attitude of punk with buckets of blackened soul to produce a record that should be on everyone’s top ten list. While listening to this album, I feel like they are drilling holes into my skull, but I don’t mind because this music is rotting joy to my demented soul. The grooves that DEPHOSPHORUS conjure up are truly astro, they are deep & otherworldly. This band is a perfect example of laying everything on the line & hiding nothing – they put every ounce of their souls into each song. The riffs that you will experience on Axiom might leave you in a state of shock or maybe with just slight brain damage. The tones that the guitars make on this album speak a language of revolution & call for the overthrow of all of the corrupt beings on planet earth. The drumming on this album sounds like an ancient army on a warpath fighting for their rights against a maggot-eating emperor! Grindcore is only the jump off for DEPHOSPHORUS – each song weaves elements of so many different genres you can’t tell where one starts & the other ends, and this blending almost leaves me speechless. What else that gets me hyped about this band is their use of eerie & bugged-out sound effects that give your thoughts a space vehicle to travel on! Vocally, the screams & growls pack a vibe of blackened rage that can’t be ignored – actually while listening to them I get an energy boost. So when you hear their tracks COLLIMATOR or ON THE VERGE OF AN OCCURRENCE, if they don’t make you feel good to be alive, you just might be dead already! Plus, DEPHOSPHORUS get props for their sick album art by Viral Graphics.
13.brat
Thanks to cool slovenian webzine 13.brat for spreading the Astrogrind word! A review is coming soon…
“Axiom” review @ Zyk´s Asylum (portuguese)
http://zykasylum.blogspot.com/2011/07/dephosphorus-axiom.html
“Axiom” review @ euphonicorgasm (greek)
A review in greek:
http://euphonicorgasm.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/dephosphorus-axiom/
“Axiom” @ Vonfrost13
http://vonfrost13.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/dephosphorus-–-axiom/
…the result is absolutely fierce, brutal but incredibly, sickly atmospheric and rich in shades taken by various heavy genres (punk, death metal, sludge, black metal, straight grindcore) where these guys move back and forth. …
“Axiom” review @ Lurker’s Path
It feels fantastic that elite connoisseurs of the more fucked up, extreme sounds played on this planet get trapped into Dephosphorus trip, eventually putting down into words the Astrogrind experience. Latest followers of the cult: excellent Lurker’s Path webzine.
Without further ado, browse here: http://www.lurkerspath.com/2011/07/14/dephosphorus-axiom/ .
This rarely happens. I put a record on for the first time and, 80 minutes or so later, on the fourth consecutive spin, I am still quite happily sitting there with no urge to consider what to move onto next. No distracting excitement to hear other bands, safe in the knowledge that I can return to this obvious masterpiece tomorrow morning after a long evening of musical enjoyment. But I am relishing it, transfixed, hungry for more, nay, lusting for more! This is the only thing I will listen to tonight. What the fuck is going on?
Dephosphorus go above and beyond for grindcore. And from Greece too. I’m totally unaware of any identifiable scene in those parts, but somehow their very first recorded effort, Axiom, has bested the entire genre. I don’t even know what I’m saying now. It seems such a bold statement, yet also one of fact.
The band refers to itself as “astrogrind” and while it’s imperative to know the difference between coining a pretty neat idea and a stupid gimmick, the term is actually wholly justified. But what does it sound like? Well, let’s get this straight, there’s no chance of this “starting something”. Dephosphorus are the only band that could ever conceivably play this music – it is theirs and theirs alone.
They follow the guidelines of grindcore closely without being suffocated by them. And, as you’re probably aware, those rules are often so dominating that many other bands are unable to do this, content with the “Well, that’s how grindcore is played and we’ll leave it at that” mindset – a dangerous way to be, because it just destroys any potential for deviation and experimentation within the movement. Those guilty parties end up indistinguishable from each other.
Dephosphorus, on the other hand, are totally free from these shackles, soaring (or grinding) towards higher planes of expression for such unhinged brutality. It’s blindingly fast, yet they know when to show restraint; clearly grindcore but also so much more. Drawing upon all the best things about the most extreme facets of hardcore and metal, you never know where Axiom will take you next.
The record will spontaneously switch from punk, to death metal, to sludge, to black metal, to grindcore and back again, often for mere seconds at a time, and all the while sounding flawlessly cohesive. It’s unprecedented and frankly quite scary. But it also sounds like nothing we’ve heard before, like gazing on a beautiful and undiscovered world: vaguely familiar, but now full of colour, dynamism and, above all, freedom. Each song teases you right from the beginning, just to get better and better as the themes develop and ideas become clearer. Stark, memorable moments can be found throughout the record’s brief running time, adding an unparalleled flow and entertainment value.
So what is Dephosphorus? And what the hell is astrogrind? It could be atmospheric grindcore. Not to say it was never atmospheric in the first place, but it did have only one atmosphere: grind… and grind. Now it feels infused with new life, untethered and audacious. Or it could be melodic grindcore, bringing in such wide influences and knowledge that the music, however ugly, also has moments of sheer elegance and finesse. Or it could just be album-of-the-year-grind, but hey, that’s just me. Not since Khann has a band of this type impressed me so much.
Axiom – the “astrogrind masterpiece in seven acts” – can be downloaded for free at the link below. However, the LP (released by 7 Degrees Records) and other merchandise can also be bought from the same location. So give it a listen… Then give them your money. They’ve been honing their craft to perfection for three years, they deserve it.
Stream “Axiom” in its entirety @ Bandcamp
If, for whatever reason, you don’t want to (or can’t) download the entire “Axiom” MLP, you can as well stream it in its entirety at our bandcamp page.
“Axiom” mini-review @ Toward The Dark Funeral
A chaotic rant describing “Axiom” by our comrade Ilias @ Toward The Dark Funeral.
“Axiom” review @ The Living Doorway
http://thelivingdoorway.blogspot.com/2011/07/dephosphorus-axiom-2011.html
(…) That said, who’s up for some crusty Greek astrogrind? The dudes from Dephosphorus sent me over a link to their new raging onslaught of raw blackened grind entitled Axiom, and it is out-fucking-standing. From what initially sounds like a demo-quality production job comes some truly quality chaos – the tracks seethe with blasting fury and overwhelming dissonance, often unfolding into winding, trancelike journeys into the astral plane before reeling it all back in to tremolo-pick you to death. Scraggly vocals (that remind me of a less-unhinged Joshua Plague) trade back and forth with throaty guttural barks, giving it an almost powerviolence feel, but Dephosphorus breeze in and out of styles with such fluid confidence that it’s hard to pin it down to any singular genre. In fact, the entire record flies by at just about 20 minutes worth of material, with each track averaging about three mere minutes in length (20 minutes of recorded music since 2008? C’mon guys, you are going to have to pick up the pace in 2011, okay? I have a feeling a lot of people are gong to be clambering for new material soon).
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