review: Sxuperion

Sxuperion

Omniscient Pulse

Bloody Mountain Records

15 June 2020

There are four EPs and five albums, according to Metal Archives, and this one is the fifth album from this one-person project by Matthew, the drummer for primal extreme entity Valdur, which has six albums. If you search on Metal Archives you will see a lot about the work that Matthew has done with other projects. The point here is that this album is one within the work ethic of a person that seems to be in a productive stage and/or is basically a music workaholic.

Consistently this album has moments of quiet/silence and/or contemplation/space sounds, sometimes with spoken words (maybe movie samples?). What these moments can do for the listener is give pause for remembering what you were hearing. Maybe some people will find the quiet moments to be annoying or a distraction, but these segments serve not as just reminders but as builders of this monolith. One moment things are going full speed and then they stop, and it’s often sudden, but that’s how things go on the album. It’s an effective way to catch your attention.

The music itself is along the lines of primal, raw blasting extreme. This publication does not have information as to what is real, sampled, computers, programmed or anything like that, but for the record, it is a known fact that projects involving Matthew prefer the sound of real drums and bestial extreme metal, basically. It is said that he plays all the music on this album, executed as best he can to make come to life the vision of the barbaric extreme with ambient moments. It would be surprising to find out that the drums are programmed because he is a drummer and this does not sound at all like programmed/sampled drumming. For the sake of clarity, this music will probably not appeal to fans that always, always demand the latest most super computerized, robotized, government-certified latest recording techniques. This is just too harsh, too filthy for a person that wants cleanliness and modernity.

Perhaps the most remarkable trait of this recording is its entertainment value, plain and simple. One possible explanation for this, is that it’s good to be old like Matthew and it’s good have lots and lots of experience in making this type of extreme sounds. This is more skilled than people will give it credit for, too. It is fast, simplistic, raw with ambient segments, and it feels good to the ear. It sounds right. It sounds good. Something about it communicates that this music sounds this way on purpose, and not because it just “came out sounding like this.”

Omniscient Pulse by Sxuperion