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APOSTLE "A Splinter In the Infinite Noumenon"
APOSTLE "A Splinter In the Infinite Noumenon"
By Dr. Abner Mality
I get a little jittery whenever a band's PR one-sheet talks about "emotional weight" and "emotional fragility". That usually signals something pretentious is on the way. On APOSTLE's one-sheet, the word "emotional" gets beaten into the ground.
A trio hailing from Atlanta, GA, they have graced us with an intense mini-LP in "A Splinter In the Infinite Noumenon". The band has a lot of energy and definite playing ability, but I find their noisy and chaotic hardcore hard to get into. It just kind of drains you after a while. It's somewhere between noisy hardcore ala CONVERGE, deathcore battery minus the predictable breakdowns and a kind of hazy post-metal. Not easy to latch onto. The chaos of "Exiting The God Hologram" and "Oscillating Polarities" is brutal as hell but not much more.
On the last track "At Ease", there's a prolonged guitar solo from Murice White smeared in a kind of watery distortion that stands as APOSTLE's best moment. It's a kind of noise that fascinates and surprises. I actually think this last song is kind of the direction they should go. And I have to say the bass-drum interplay is also top-notch.
There is something here worth revisiting, but I can't say I will be spending a lot of time with this one.
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