Here is something I discovered during this November and it is something different and strange! Flail is also a Finnish band but a much more lowkey band (although they do have a spotify page!) with not much info about them on the web. This rehearsal tape was their first official release and as luck would have it was also the first release I heard from them. Having only skimmed their future releases after this one I'm not really in a position to tell you how kvlt this one is compared to the newer ones but I does feel like this tape is more of a "proof of concept" thing than anything else. So what the hell is it? Well it is a bit difficult to describe as I don't really know any other band that sounds like them except maybe Yoga? Or I guess a really drugged out and disoriented Haexenzijrkell? Kind of?
The biggest contributor to their uniqueness is a very distorted and psychedelic guitar tone which has a bunch of weird effects that seems super layered with short bursts of delay or reverb? Or perhaps there are several guitars in the mix? I'm not really sure exactly how they are pulling this sound off but I absolutely love it. The vocals are more of an afterthought and can be heard mainly in the back and are your usual fare of pained screams that you can often hear on lo-fi tapes like this. Drumwork is slow and plodding but fits very nicely with the "slowly dragged into a void while overdosed on heroin" atmosphere of the whole tape. The only problem I have with this demo is that the guitars are definitely too high in the mix and they are suffocating pretty much everything else here and that can get annoying at certain points. Despite those production decisions this tape absolutely fucking rocks and I'm looking forward to discover the rest of their output as this tape sounds to me very fresh and unique!
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