SHAME by meth.

Against our better judgment, our id wanders out from under our conscious gaze, consuming everything in sight, leaving us and our surroundings in a state of abject ruin. To capture the disgust and helplessness that follow in the wake of this escape, experimental metal group meth. released their new record SHAME, a multi-genre expedition into the deepest recesses of desire. Brutal drum beats apply constant pressure as the guitars move between doomy riffs, blackened noise, and abstract feedback, all while inflamed vocals deliver lyrics so dark and desperate as to even turn heads in the experimental metal space. To meth., the id constantly violates one’s sovereignty, obtaining fleeting bursts of satisfaction that the band portrays with an occasional shimmery, ascendant guitar tone that breaks with the record’s overwhelming negativity. However, all paths that pass through pleasure end in horrific embarrassment, a whirlpool of cognitive dissonance that sucks the band into the types of rock-bottom headspaces that can inspire an album like SHAME.