What Passes For Survival
*What Passes For Survival* is technical death metal seemingly created by Dadaists. Most of its songs are nonlinear splatters of amorphous riffs and centrifugal rhythms: “The Invisible Hand Holds a Whip” drops gooey layers of screams and grunts into the already disorienting mix, while the grindcore-flavored “Trash Talk Landfill” turns all of it cold and atonal. But Pyrrhon can also drop down a couple of gears, as on “Empty Tenement Spirit,” which is a bottomless pit of blackened clangs and plodding drums.
Continuing to shapeshift and unravel, while using unorthodox songwriting techniques that border on the incomprehensible, avant-garde extreme metal quartet PYRRHON return with What Passes For Survival. Dense, volatile, and drenched in manic ferocity, What Passes For Survival is an aural challenge that refuses to adhere to genre conventions, merging strategic orchestrated bursts of death metal chaos with expanses of unhinged improvisation. The latest stage of PYRRHON’s metamorphosis is one that demands repeated audio submersion from the listener, and satisfies those craving sonic extremity that pushes limits. Also available on vinyl via Throatruiner records: music.throatruinerrecords.com/album/what-passes-for-survival
A review of What Passes for Survival by Pyrrhon, available August 11th via Throatruiner Records in Europe and Willowtip Records in North America.