Brown Jenkins - Dagonite
March 24 2008 at 07:01:31 AM
Like Lovecraft aficionados Portal and Catacombs, Texas-based Brown Jenkins stresses the continuation rather than adaptation of the author’s nightmare themes.
Dagonite is autopsy as homage, exhuming the corpse of Howard Phillip’s fiction (itself often defined as the reflection of our “hideous” and incomplete existence) and baring the remains as under microscope, uncovering layers of ghastly, micro-biotic insurgents - things viral and alien seen crawling through the barbed veil of technology. Recorded at the home of guitarist and now sole member Umesh Amtey (ex-
Erebus webzine), the album’s swarm-like production supports a blurring arch across the aural spectrum as drum and guitar collide in swollen heartbeats, riffs suffocate within their own static gain and arpeggios play on as taut ornaments over the stinging, skin crackling chill of lurching rhythm. Yet, even in its more oneiric strains, the album is more organic than majestic, closer to Death Metal or Doom in the way it expresses obstinate transformation, adorned with few “words” besides the members' arcane growls. An album characterized by its invasiveness rather than the approach of ominous shapes. It’s already in the blood, you see, awakening from once harmonious thoughts a suppressed, yet pervasive dread. The feeling not of what surrounds us, but that which lurks within.
[Todd DePalma]
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