{"id":30283,"date":"2015-04-23T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=30283"},"modified":"2015-06-02T02:36:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T02:36:20","slug":"ep-review-sect-pig-self-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/ep-review-sect-pig-self-reversed\/","title":{"rendered":"SECT PIG – Self Reversed EP (2015) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

SECT PIG
Self Reversed EP<\/strong><\/span>
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\nNuclear War Now! Productions (2015)<\/span>
Rating: 5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sect Pig\u2019s new 18-minute opus is surely one of the year\u2019s most demented releases so far. Hard to pin it down with the black metal tag to be honest because it\u2019s so bonkers at times, Sect Pig being one of those peculiar and clearly twisted extreme metal experimentalists. <\/p>\n

Serial killer-obsessed, Self Reversed<\/em> (the follow-up to 2013\u2019s debut mini-project Slave Destroyed<\/em>) dabbles very much in avantgarde black metal where we find a mix of eerie samples, industrialised horrors and minimalistic black metal all laced by one hell of a weird and almost clinical feeling \u2013 as if some unhinged killer himself constructed such an unsettling noise. <\/p>\n

What music we do get bombarded by is obscure. Hateful, and yet all to alienating to truly comprehend. One moment the troupe are offering up something akin to a perverse, creepy soundtrack of haunting chimes and distant echoes, and then the next we get molested by a bizarre barrage of indecipherable vocal coughs which act as a blizzard to complement the horrendous racket of smothering drum surges and frenzied blasts. <\/p>\n

In fact, it would be all too kind to describe this wretched opus as musical. The feeling one gets is that a group of murderous asylum inmates have got together with some trash cans and thrown them around a musty garage for ten minutes or so, and the rest they\u2019ve just played a sample from what sounds like analysis and questioning of a psychopath or two. I\u2019ve heard some hideous noise in my time but it\u2019s difficult to really give this a fair grading, the artists in question rarely opting for any sort of melody except until around the 16-minute mark when we\u2019re treated to a stuffy trudge. Other than that though, this is simply puked out as one horrendous, obscure act of dementia spliced with spoken word monologues. <\/p>\n

I can\u2019t put it any simpler, Sect Pig veering well clear of any expected racket within the field to the point where Self Reversed<\/em> isn\u2019t really black metal at all but just an unwholesome, unrewarding din that starts off about as violent as any clamour of this sort can get. The vocals here are mere belches and grunts as the rest of Sect Pig acts as a stark maniacal strain on the ears and nothing more. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really know what else to say, but one gets the feeling that Sect Pig could churn out some of the strangest music you\u2019ve heard, and yet I\u2019m just thankful this disturbance only runs for just under 20 minutes. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s frustrating when it\u2019s nigh on impossible to review an album but this has come as close as it gets, because Sect Pig\u2019s second release is just a hysterical tumult which the press release describes as a \u201cmanic descent into hypnotic psychosis\u201d<\/em>. Well, I\u2019m glad they said it, because this is a very unstable horror show most likely put together in an abattoir with an electrocuted pig proving vocal rants. The rating reflects how I\u2019m swayed neither way by its extremity.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SECT PIGSelf Reversed EP Nuclear War Now! Productions (2015)Rating: 5\/10 Sect Pig\u2019s new 18-minute opus is surely one of the year\u2019s most demented releases so far. Hard to pin it down with the black metal tag to be honest because it\u2019s so bonkers at times, Sect Pig being one of those peculiar and clearly twisted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-sect-pig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30283"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30289,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283\/revisions\/30289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}