Circle Of Animals - Destroy The Light

 

Year: 2010

Label: Relapse

Somebody woke up the ghost of Wax Trax!, and put out the best goth-y industrial band of the decade to little fanfare. A very musical industrial album mind you. It's dark and pulsing and buzzing and droning and pounding and brooding. Covers a lot of ground while still sticking in a known wheelhouse.

The band is Bruce Lamont and Sanford Parker, both of whom have notable resumes in the world of heavy and fucked up music. Mr. Lamont is the driving force behind Yakuza, but has also been in Corrections House, Brain Tentacles, and Bloodiest. Mr. Parker was in Minsk, Twilight, Corrections House, Nactmystium, High Confessions, Buried At Sea, and a million others. So together you're dealing with a pretty formidable duo already. But for this project they roped in a different drummer to play on each song, and those drummers are pretty formidable in their own rights. You get:

Jeff Morgan from Rwake/Deadbird

Noah Leger from Hurl/Milemarker/Challenger/Facs

Zack Simmons from Goatwhore

Darren Verni from Unearthly Trance

John Merryman from Cephalic Carnage

Dave Witte from every band ever

Steve Shelley from Sonic Youth

John Herndon from Tortoise/Poster Children/The For Carnation

In addition, they also get a little help from Dallas Thomas of Pelican and for added Industrial cred, Chris Connelly. Legit stuff. Really great record.

DL