Beneath the Pound of Flesh EP Review

Amos/Anon

Review by Joel C Blood // 12 August 2014
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Beneath the Pound of Flesh
released 09 February 2014 

written and recorded: Amos/Anon 
backing vocals: Paraffin 
cover photography: Jessicka @ Visceral Photography

BTPoF is a neurotic journey into one of NZ’s great underground doom artist’s state of mind at it’s darkest. This record is a stripped back 6 song thematic acoustic album that picks up where Amos/Anon’s last acoustic work, Songs of a Tortured Soul, left off. People love musical comparisons, so here is mine. BTPoF sounds like Trent Reznor featuring on an early Sub Pop unplugged record – which is a good thing. 

What I really like about Amos/Anon is the honesty and integrity that he brings to his music. With so much radio friendly, NZ on Air funded horse shit being pumped out these days, it is refreshing to hear someone doing what THEY want and it comes through in the tunes. 

This record is dedicated to the memory of Amos’s brother. Knowing this you can see that this is a record of healing and dealing with great loss. The complimenting but contrasting vocals of Paraffin bring an extra dimension to Amos’s dark deep voyage into the abyss of pain and for once low budget production adds to the aural experience instead of detracting from it. 

If you like doom, sludge, industrial or gothic rock then don’t look past this sombre, lumberingly visceral record. You can get a free download on Bandcamp.

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