Probability Storm

  I believe esoteric music has the ability to spark reflection on deeper truths about the human experience and the world that are inaccessible through conventional musicality. Even in most avant-garde pieces, the sonic expression is bound by expectations and tropes which obstruct the true idea that inspired it. These expectations and tropes create the language of a genre as a way to communicate in the medium of sound, but any language is inherently limited. Some music sheds most layers of expected structure to discover new modes of expression, potentially better representations of their source. One such project is the one-man band Uzumaki by the prolific Jared Moran, who's also known as Plaguehammer. He plays a form of through-composed dissonant death metal whose rhythmic and tonal forms shift without warning. It's most comparable to Pyrrhon's improvisational jazz take on the genre but much more disorienting. When I listen to "Gift of Tongues", I imagine a dark an...