U.K.
duo khost released their third full-length album titled Governance in June of
2017. What Damian Bennett and Andy Swan
have created is a nightmarish soundscape that will leave you feeling battered,
bruised and irrevocably altered.
Throughout Governance the harsh industrial noise, distorted
guitar loops, punishing vocal snarl and intoxicating chants combine to create
feelings of fear, anguish and unassailable desperation. Opening track Redacted Repressed Recalcitrant
makes it abundantly clear that themes like hope and salvation will find no
tenor in this punishing aural tome. Tracks
like Subliminal Chloroform Violation, Cloudbank Mausoleum and Defraction are
permeated with the strong feeling that an individual force is working at a
quite deliberate pace to prolong the listener’s torment.
Numb and despondent, the torment continues unabated with the
tracks Demenized, Depression and Stockholm Syndrome. However, the individual force mentioned above
has been violently replaced by multiple forces working in conjunction to
further precipitate your pain and suffering.
The hour of reckoning is near and the only question that remains is will
you survive this ordeal with your soul intact.
Governance plays like the soundtrack of a movie about the
final gasps of a being whose life force has all but extinguished, but refuses to
die. If you have ever wondered what it
is like to witness a battle for soul and sanity then Governance is the album
for you.
-El Pedo Caliente (aka Uncle Jameson from the Fistful of
DOOM show)
PS: This one pairs well with The Temptress Imperial Milk
Stout from Lakewood Brewing Company.
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