review: Evaporated Sores

Evaporated Sores

Ulcerous Dimensions

Sentient Ruin Laboratories

September 3 2020

The slow growl music of death doom often tends to sound accessible because it is easy-going heaviness that encourages listeners to relax with some totally tubular tunes in slow motion, sometimes with some faster segments, while the doom customers kick back and enjoy a glass of ice-cold orange juice, a spicy tomato drink or a chill Shirley Temple. Death doom was working out very well at the party and everybody at this restaurant was happy in a nice depressive kind of way, until these here malcontents showed up and messed up everybody’s menu. Death doom, to the fans, can often be a nice, contemplative listen, but that now has come to a screeching halt as this entity is here to make death doom repugnant.

This recording is death doom in the same way that pizza covered with spiders, cockroaches, bats and worms is also still pizza. So there you were at Giordano’s or Vito and Nick’s hoping for “your regular” order, and this pizza called Evaporated Sores showed up and now it’s on the table and you’re staring at it and wondering where did you go wrong in life. You did not go wrong in life. This is life now. Evaporated Sores. What is it? There is death doom and there are some blasting segments. That’s the part we all understand. There is also some dissonant guitars, tortured, cyborg-alien growling, and computer-machine sounds. Sometimes this is something like when the car alarm comes on really loud upsetting everyone around and people standing there on 8433 South Pulaski Road, yelling, “Hey! Turn off your car alarm, man!”

Evaporated Sores is here to turn death doom into a hideous creature. The last minute of “Eternal Inflation” is like the robots are having a meltdown. “Infinite Remission” is already all disgusting by itself and then the last minute kicks in and it sounds like the cyborgs are doing yoga. Perhaps the last track “Cosmic Indifference” is the best synthesis of the idea of the album. The die-hard fans of ugly power electronics and horrendous industrial music are going to think this entity does not go far enough in integrating the electronic-industrial chaos, but to many fans of death doom this will be rather jarring. Surely things are going to get a lot more jarring in the future after this debut. For now, this will do. This is plenty to get started. What a pizza.

Ulcerous Dimensions by Evaporated Sores