Review of DUSK - Bunker
There's a point where industrial black metal stops sounding like a metal band experimenting with electronics and starts resembling electronic music that occasionally remembers it has guitars. Costa Rica's DUSK have been operating somewhere around that point for years, and Bunker takes the idea further. Anyone expecting traditional black metal with a few synthesizers in the background is going to have a difficult time with this one. The band has spent a decade developing its particular mixture of mechanical percussion, distorted vocals, low-frequency electronics and black metal aggression. On Bunker, the electronic side has enough control over the arrangements that the guitars sometimes feel like an additional source of noise rather than the main attraction. It's a peculiar approach, but DUSK seem perfectly comfortable with it. The six numbered compositions also make more sense as parts of a single recording than as songs competing for attention. The opening couple of piece...
