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Finally have this killer EP from Negativa back in stock, recently reissued by the Canadian label PRC Music ?after being out of print for a couple of years. Same material as the original release including the additional video content, this stuff still melts my head just as intensely as it did when it first came out back in the mid-noughties, and is one of the last things that we ever heard from former Gorguts axe-warper Steeve Hurdle before his untimely death in 2012.
Here's the original writeup for the original Prodisk release from 2006: Just found some of the last copies ever of this now out of print debut from these mighty Canadian avant-death metallers.
If you haven't heard, Negativa is the Quebecois tech metal ensemble that was formed by members of the now defunct avant-death metal band Gorguts, along with members of fellow French Canadian heavyweights Ion Dissonance and Augury. Now, I freaking love Gorguts, their Obscura album is one of the most challenging, batshit form-destroying death metal albums of the past decade, so I've been chomping at the bit to hear these guys back in action, especially after seeing some studio footage of the Negativa guys on Youtube a couple of months back that was fucking unreal...seriously, hearing/seeing former Gorguts guitarists Steeve Hurdle and Luc Lemay inverting their fretboards again is a something to behold. So here's the self-titled debut release from Negativa, a three song EP that clocks in at 20 minutes, in a limited edition of 1,000 copies. And it's everything I hoped it would be and more, sounding like the guys are picking up right where they left off with Obscura and going even deeper into left field, with mind blowingly bizarre and complex riffs, long stretches of minimalist, dissonant doom, and multi-layered dissonant harmonies merging with Luc Lemay's sickening gasping vocals. Another thing - the riffs and blasts are surrounded by these really creepy, string-scraping ambient parts that had my skin crawling, the guitarists scraping and tapping and detuning their strings to create sounds more like the ghoulish violin string sounds on certain Japanese horror films than anything you'd expect to hear from a "death metal" band. I gotta say though that Negativa have already transcended the bounderies of death metal with their debut. If you're even marginally a fan of Gorguts' Obscura, order this right now. Totally fucking amazing. Plus, the disc contains a multimedia CD-ROM section loaded with lyrics, photos, and a video of Chaos In Motion that was created from the studio footage of the band recording the song, the same footage that I originally saw on Youtube many months ago! Can't freaking wait for the full length.
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