review: Plague Organ -- hypnotic industrial-drone-metal

Plague Organ

Orphan

Sentient Ruin Laboratories

August 28, 2020

Huge congratulations to me! Today was a big day for me. I had the super human strength and stamina to withstand everything that this album could throw at me. I survived. I am a Plague Organ survivor. I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar.

This is pure genius. That, or, they could be the biggest scammers since Milli Vanilli. You decide. Here’s the situation:

1.The album is one tracks that lasts 39 minutes.

2.This is uptempo industrial-drone-metal without guitars, just bass, drumming and (soft, gentle) growling.

3.This is highly, highly repetitive or circular.

4.One result of this music is that the listener goes into a type of hypnosis or trance.

5.This duo should have put a hypnotic circle on the cover of the album, or should do it for the YouTube version for people to look at while listening.

How much is actually played (by humans using their hands for bass guitar and drums) is questionable. The drums seem like programmed or sampled sounds and there is bass guitar and synths, and vocals, but given that this is very repetitive/circular, this literally sounds like the following: about 5-15 seconds of bass guitar that has been copied and pasted for some 37 minutes. A drum beat copied and pasted for 37 minutes. The beat is a very up/down industrial-type machine-like uptempo beat, and every several minutes there is a very brief drum roll. There is an ongoing continuous computer-like chant taking place throughout, enhancing the sensation of hypnosis. The vocals are sparse and it is a gentle, cave-dwelling giant whisper-growling from a distance far away, and the giant is trying to lull you into hypnosis or sleep.

The last two minutes is some type industrial alien noise that repeats until the end.

See?! Genius, right? That. Or, this is all one big joke. You have been had by Plague Organ. Was it fun?!

Alrighty then! Get your wallet out because these Dutchmen, Marlon Wolterink and René Aquarius, are ready for and they gave me a message for you: "Tell'em to bring me my moneyyyyyyy!"

(The excerpt available below is a very good illustration of the whole album. Just imagine it going on and on for 35 more minutes. Hypnosis awaits.)

Orphan by Plague Organ