In Mosquito Control these dudes devote skins, axes and throat to build up some truly sick, grim and poisonus blend of ultra-distorted, funereal sludge doom metal. Their first utters, or else tortured moanings and sounds, are contained in their debut, limited edition 2012 Demo/Promo Tape. Two tracks that were enough for attracting the attention of a UK label with a good sniff for crushingly heavy music, Mordgrimm Recs. So a full length album by Mosquito Control is due out in the next few months via the British label. The new album is called "Destroyed Beyond Redemption" and is going to include remixed versions of the two raw, crushing tracks of the debut tape. These two tracks can be streamed on Bandcamp so to have an idea of what attracted the boss of Mordgrimm. Those who like analog music may also get hold of the solid demo tape (only a few are still available).
The 8:20 minutes-long suite Disconnection will be the opener of the new album. The rumble and the vibrations of the downtuned guitars give the first assault to your ears, then the tortured, suffocating vocals in the background will dig their way through the reverbered feedback. The initial slow blows on the drums are almost reassuring in their sort of ritualistic rhythms. But fury and chaos will soon take over with the introduction of crazy black metal/crust accelerations of both riffs and blows and ear-bleeding noise. The atmospheres and the sensations induced by Mosquito Control are suicidal, yet the absurdly slow, monolithic riffs flowing and pulverizing everything like fronts of a glacier do possess a sabbathian groove that is able to capture your mind like a hook in your mouth. The second track, Destroyed Beyond Redemption, is shorter (slightly longer than 5 minutes) and will finish you. Right from the very first instants you’ll be run over by a deafening, enormous, bison-like charge of relentless, tribal drumming, seismic molasse-heavy riffs and scary non-human howls. When tempos slow down in the funereal core of the track you can hear those familiar sabbathian riffs vibrate even if tremendously raw and downtuned. Instead of closing with long noisy feedback dying out into silence, the band will salute you with another taste of their gigantic charge before closing the track in the same abrupt way as in the previous track. This trick will make silence boom and will leave you wanting to suffer longer!
The production is quite remarkable. It is true that these two tape tracks are raw mix of the new album, but still it is interesting to hear the strong contrast between the extreme rawness of the riffs and the comparably crispy sound of drumming. Vocals are rendered as painfully emerging from something viscous and intoxicating like molten pitch! The full-length album is being mastered by none less than mighty James Plotkin, hence upcoming things will be even more promising! So if you like that wild, toxic way of making dark, punishing ultra-heavy sludge-doom metal like in Meth Drinker, Open Tomb, or else in Euro bands like Karcavul, Grime, Cult of Occult and you appreciate sounds inspired by Corrupted, Burning Witch, Khanate, Noothgrush, Stumm as well as drenched with some Sabbathian/Saint Vitus groove, then try Mosquito Control and keep them under your radar for their upcoming album …. And those who are at reach, get hold of these dudes live as they will play their first gig next late March with monster Open Tomb & another local nasty band, Graves. See the band’s FB page for details!
Words: Marilena Moroni
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