Review of Beastianity's album "Root"

Sometimes you find an album that kicks your ass and drags you around the room by your hair. For me the latest album is "Root" by Beastianity. Songs to fuck god to is what I like to call this album. One of the more eclectic heavy recordings I have ever heard, going between dark folk, industrial, drone with a little bit of stoner thrown in with maximum sample use. You would be suprised at the samples they use in this recording. Digery Doos, kids playing and yes, a woman giving birth. Never have i found an album put together so well. All the tracks differ from each other, yet it is put together in a way that every song complements the last. This album in my view is the soundtrack to the end of civilisation as we know it.
With this album, I can legitimately say that i had fun disecting and reviewing it. Did i get the point of the album? maybe not but this is what i get from it, and i urge you to get this record and get your own point of view from it.
The album kicks off with the untitled dark celtic folk track that really just sets the pace of denying god throughout the album. "Christ is a whore, and the pope is a pimp" is the first lyric on the album before they go about ripping on every major god of the worlds most important religions.
The second track entitled Daydark Rob is a solo cello work that brings a feeling of dispair much like J.S Bachs cello suite 5 in c minor, track four. Any fans of Chamber of Sorrows will get into this. In my personal opionion, this is real funeral doom. The third track is entitled "The Hatred That Pleasure Brings. This track is very reminisant of the sounds of Merzbow, with its electonic extreme noise terror. The lyrics in this track fit in well with its angst driven voice, proclaiming "to feed on the hatred that pleasure brings."
Speaking in forked tounges is yet another track that brings feelings of dispair. A droning acoustic ditty that gives the feeling that the end has come, and the lyrics confirm this as a vocal kicks in proclaiming "jesus christ is coming back". The fourth track entitled "Ragnorok Cock" reminds me of a serman given by a priest that has given up on everything that he has preached and to all he has preached to. "you will never finish taking, and killing and raping: and i do not expect you will do so."
Christialitys Pyre follows and as in fasion of Beastianitys ability to Build upon the previous songs intent, this track seems to portray the priest snapping and taking vengence on those who betrayed his faith. "In the shadow of the church, i stepped up to watch it burn."
The albums 7th track, "White Scar" could possibly be the most disturbing track i have ever heard. This is the track I mentioned with the sample of a woman giving birth. The track portrays the inevitable fact that life leads to death, and how futile it all is. Then as if a slap in the face while you have been listening to a woman give birth for over four minutes, Hagsong kicks in. This song evokes the feeling of alarm. Upon listening to it the first time, all I could invision was the birth of a demon in a 1970s horror flick. And once again, seemingly masters of not writing songs, but an album in whole, really get to me with this follow up. Going from a track that portrays birth and the futility of life, to evoking feelings of evil being born. This simply blows me away.
Root is a somewhat stoner rock gone tribal feel. Just when the album may have been getting to be too much, the band brings the tempo up with this track. some foreign vocals i dont understand, but overall it lightens up the mood, which may have been needed and i think the band saw this. Or was this there intention at all? The end of the song blasts to an ended somewhat destroying the upbeat feeling, which forshadows for the next track to bring you back to the feeling of alarm.
Theme to the gods father with its droning soundscape, with electronic overtones that sound simular to what you may hear in a movie of aliens discovering a baron planet, exploring its atmosphere only to find that it is the remains of a destroyed civilization. Track eleven is another dark folk track entitled "The Road to Hel". This track seems to be the end of a well written story claiming "the road to hel is paved with good intention." It is an uplifting look at the prospect that everything we do is utterly pointless. But not that this is the end of the album. Things in the bush is an industrial song sampled with Digery Doos leaving you to see the picture of utter dispair that the album has painted leaving you with alot to think of.
After the album is finished, you are left with a couple nuggets. The first hidden song is entitled wholesome which consists of a Charles Manson song and some fucked up vocals looped to the effect of noise. Then you wait a little longer to get to the last hidden song, which is two tracks put together; "Black Stork" and "The Troll Song". It would almost seem as though these tracks are but one song as they fit together so well. kicking off with Black Stork, a drone of feedback with the message that death is your only reality leading to the Troll Song with a backwards loop. Black Stork is one last drive at the listener to get across the point of the whole album.
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