1. A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Part 1 (7:22)
2. A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Part 2 (6:38 )
3. Ouroboros Is Broken (18:19)

Extra-Capsular Extraction is quite possibly the single heaviest album I have ever heard.

"A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Part 1" immediately sucks you into a sea of thunderous, overwhelming weight, and never eases its grip for its entire 7-minute running time; quite the opposite, in fact. It continues - unaltered, uncaring - slowly closing in the walls around you. The structure and riff remain constant for an ungodly amount of time, quite literally to the point of rattling your bowels. By now, the apathetic giant that is "A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Part 1" has picked you up, and is giving you a curious, cockeyed stare as it decides your fate. When the song finally alters itself ever so slightly, the giant decides to hold you upside down and take gentle prods at you, pathetic mortal that you are. At this point, you know the giant is just playing with you. You are nothing to it. You are its toy. Your life is in its hands.

Just at the moment when you don’t think you can take any more, yet still hunger for it, "A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Part 1" decides it is done with you. It jerks its hand away, pulling the ground out from under you. It has tossed you aside – it can’t be bothered to care. You are now dangling precariously from a cliff, staring into a miles-long abyss, feeling doom become imminent.

Then, something rises from the nothingness. "A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Part 2" has decided to keep you alive for the time being. You begin to float, yet are somehow still sinking. The drone moves you, alters you, fucks with you. Then blackness surrounds you as the guitar fades slightly, while the drone impossibly continues unabated. A strange occurrence takes place in the land of Earth – vocals reveal themselves. Yet the intensity is anything but diluted by this. The blackness surrounding you becomes sinister, alien, and frightening. Indistinct flashes of white and gray swirl around you in horrifyingly fast motions. What are these surely evil demons going to do to you?

And just as "A Bureaucratic Desire For Revenge Part 2" is about to move in and make the kill, the almighty "Ouroboros Is Broken" demands it stand down, and takes over controlling your fate. Death seeps in from every corner. This is the end. You are powerless.

But what is this? Just as "Ouroboros Is Broken" is about to crush your skull in its fist, the three tracks form into one – the all powerful, all knowing, all seeing Extra-Capsular Extraction, and it releases a mighty laugh of contempt. It turns its back to you, and slowly saunters away, echoing a deafening boom across the land of Earth with each step. Now you are alone in the black corner of Earth, curled in a fetal position, tears and mucus running down your face. Confused, you open your eyes. You rise to your feet, and see the faint blue light of greener pastures ahead. You are now ready to explore the vast, open plains of Earth 2.

Extra-Capsular Extraction is underrated to the degree of extremity. How can it ever be said that Earth 2 started drone when this delicious offering came before it? I do not aim to imply that Earth 2 is overrated - far from it. Earth 2 is a masterpiece. But I find Extra-Capsular Extraction to be even better. Earth 2, while certainly a ridiculously heavy album, emits a calming vibe. Extra-Capsular Extraction, on the other hand, is…well, see above.

And while there are multitudes of albums that have the audacity to claim "To Be Played LOUD", this is the real motherfucker right here. Extra-Capsular Extraction is to be played loudly, or not at all.

May all imitators fall to their knees and tremble in its presence.




Now if no one replies to this thread I am going to fucking kill all of you.

Did you write that review?

Yes.

Because I would rather encourage people such as yourself to listen to engaging music like Earth than have you listen to disgustingly bland pop music, I will temporarily refrain from commenting on that review.

Have you listened to any Acid Mothers Temple, LV?

...no, I haven't.

Go ahead, comment. Now I want to know.

The urge to say something really mean has passed, so I'll just say that the style you wrote it in isn't my thing.

Anyway you might try some AMT, not really the same as Earth by any means but they are big on the heavy and loud guitar experimentation. I have some other recommendations but they are probably too far out there and have little to do with Earth in reality.

It can't be "too far out there". I'm up for anything.

And hey, I just wrote what the album made me feel, man.

Buffalohed is a prick

Fuck it, I might as well say. I was thinking of Ulrich Schnauss and Fennesz. But neither of them are close except that they make experimental noise. And they are both awesome. If you are interested for some strange reason, try out A Strangely Isolated Place and Endless Summer.

edit: Also check out Kinski. They actually write songs in place of noise experiments, but they are loud, long, and noisey as hell and crush/destroy shit with their guitars.

My musical taste would beat your musical tastes' ass.

A Strangely Isolated Place sounds fucking awesome and right up my alley. Thanks for the recommendation.

Prick.

Haha, (assuming your being serious cause I can't really tell right now), no problem buddy. It's a great record.

Oh, also check out Paik - Orson Fader. I dunno what's into me tonight I'm just spewing recommendations like a madman. But yeah, Paik destroys shit too.

Yes, I was serious, I'm d/ling it right now. Kinski and Paik sound pretty fucking awesome as well (I'm a total sucker for shoegazer).

Keep 'em comin', if you like...

Corridors is another great Paik album

Another band you should check out is Nadja .... very droney, i see similarities to both Jesu and Earth in Nadja....

And if you like Ulrich Schnauss you may want to check out Manual...

Well I don't wanna force recommendations or they will end up a lot further from the mark than the ones I already gave, but I was thinking of 2 more. Experimental Audio Research - Mesmerised, and Amp - Perception have an ambient noise type thing going on, but I stress ambient with these two. They have layers and sound-washes and all that good stuff but are pretty slow and don't really crush anything.

I like em both but they won't destroy you or make you immediately love them like the other stuff I recommended potentially will. That's all from me, any more and it will just be a shot in the dark.

Bingo.

Dawz, I've heard Truth Becomes Death and wasn't all that impressed. I'll definitely revisit it, but it didn't blow me away or anything.

And thanks for all the recommendations. It's appreciated, trust me.

NOW FUCKING TALK ABOUT EXTRA-CAPSULAR EXTRACTION!

I haven't heard it.