THE PSYKE PROJECT

Guillotine

LP + CD



The Psyke Project's farewell is everything one could want from a hardcore sludge record. Danish collective The Psyke Project knew how to write a thundering song, and on Guillotine their brand of bouncing hardcore sludge, bearing resemblance to that of Amenra and Time to Burn, wastes no time in making itself known. The first three tracks steamroll through with very few airs and graces, largely courtesy of the swampy, fuzzy riffs of Mikkel Vadstrup Schmidt and Christian Bonnesen. ‘Death Sight’’s stoner swagger splits the more hostile animus of the title track and ‘The End’ perfectly, while Martin Nielskov barely deviates from his spiteful roar (a trait carried throughout Guillotine, tonality being sacrificed somewhat for vitriolic delivery). ‘Empire’ takes a further leaf out of Amenra’s book, the lower pace and more prominent guitar melody yielding slightly less animalistic results than the previous tracks, while still maintaining a massively dense atmosphere.