Biolich - The Space Between Home and Today

Rating: 8.5

Country: USA

Release Date: 2005

Track list:
1. Morals Like Frozen Piss
2. Extensive Autumn Necrony [mp3]
3. Twin Face Exorcism
4. Time Kills Everything
5. Ikon Sumo
6. Unfortunately they don’t let us store dead bodies in the dumpsters at work

Band Website: Biolich

Biolich - The Space Between Home and Today MCD

Will Smith - Vocals
Andrew Hock - Guitars
Dan Olivencia - Bass
Tom Carey Jr.- Drums

This is a band to watch out for. Not one song sounds like the other and if you lost faith on the NY scene, you got another thing coming and instead of sounding like a typical NY wannabe Internal Bleeding, these guys are a fucking mutated scumfuck of Squash Bowels, Negura Bunget, Terrorizer, Boards of Canada, The Number 12 Looks Like You and of course Demilich. If any of you dingle berries followed my advice on checking out Genghis Tron (review), Biolich is in that same page of being on the forefront of something new and innovative. These guys stand out like the fucking herpes on your lips that you contracted from giving a homeless crusty bum a rancid blowjob.

These guys started out as a Demilich worship band (hence the name), here and there you can still here the Antti bull-frog style vocals and those cyclonic riffage, but at their current stage they stand as their own. Three songs were re-recorded from their earlier releases ‘Time Kills Everything' (2003 promo), ‘Morals Like Frozen Piss' (2004 promo) and ‘Extensive Autumn Necrony' (2003 and 2004 promo), but the earlier recordings doesn't give the songs justice (especially those annoying high rape vocals in 2004). Everything is much clearer and much heavier, even the spoken words on "Morals..." is much louder so every fag can sing along to it ("...a mind scorned is a bucket.."). SHUT UP! I LIKE THAT PART! SO WHAT IF I SING ALONG TO IT?! YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT, BUDDY?! FUCK OFF! But the beautiful part is that in "Time Kills Everything" the ending is a mellow part added never recorded before nor performed live in front of an audience.

I've mentioned Boards of Canada at the first paragraph, I'm pretty new to the electronica genre, but I can assure you that Boards of Canada has to be one of the biggest influences for the electronica tracks. I've first noticed the band playing around with electronica at their first (of many versions) 2003 promo which had the track "Novitas Exitus" (a couple of remixed/versions going under the title ‘Bor Fontan') then at 2004 ‘Stol Vapre' was recorded and that totally hooked me and many people who aren't originally into that kind of track. “Ikon Sumo” is a lengthier track than the previous tracks, one of the guys did tell me that it included some hidden messages like some Boeing 700 crash buried beneath under the recording. If you have the chance try to look for the 2004 Promo, they should still have that available.

The performance heard here is nothing but stellar. Even though the whole entire band does backing vocals, Will can sound like Antti Boman to an angry mother bear that just woke up from its hibernation, a huge dominating vocalist that ranges from gutturals, to screaming banshee and to an inhaling vortex that transport you to dimension Ectoplasmic Iconosphere D.2. Andrew and Dan's string department heavy as fuck octave E wrestlers your auditory senses as Tom adds and multiplies with his drum patterns. Yes, they also have a mathcore element with all these weird equations. Though it may sound over-whelming, Biolich is actually a lot easier to listen, think of them as if they're some frat dude trying to slip in some roofies in your drink, next thing you know you're laying on a ditch with your panties over your mouth and you're beaten, battered, pregnant with your anus ripped 10 inches apart. That's what Biolich is.

From the cover, it already tells you that this is an amorphic band. You can't pigeonhole this band. And you better watch out from those tentacles behind you. Just enjoy it.

November 20th, 2005