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Reviewed
by: Darklight
This
is a Colin Schwen project. You might be familar with his other band
Terminal Sect. Well, I personally can't tell the difference between
the two. This makes me wonder why Colin decided to do this project in
the first place. Usually when a musician does a side project it's to
do something different. However, there is nothing different about Porcupine
Defense when compared to Terminal Sect. Both the music and vocals are
extremely noisy and distorted making these songs difficult to enjoy.
It's a shame that everything is so scratchy and chaotic because this
could be really good music if it was cleaned up. As it is now it's hard
to really get into because it's actually kind of annoying. All of the
songs basically sound the same and play at the same pace not allowing
enough variety. The overall music is not layered nearly as much as I
would like. The extremely distorted growling vocals and noises drown
out the electronics and synths. This is loud and aggressive music with
an angry edge. Nothing ever gets too creative here. I have heard this
same sound on two Terminal Sect albums already. I want something new.
If the vocals were cleaner and there was less distortion on the music
and greater synth melodies were used, we would have something here.
But right now this is just too messy. The recording quality is muffled
and poor. Some songs are recorded at higher volume levels making the
overall album sound unbalanced. If you're a big fan of Terminal Sect
and want more of the same energy packed noisy diostorted anger combined
with slight guitar and scratchy static sounds then you will like this.
Otherwise, you will probably want to pass.
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