REVIEW: THEDOWNGOING 'I AM BECOME' (SELF-RELEASED)

Like Anaal Nathrakh if they replaced the black metal influences with Agoraphobic Nosebleed, West Sydney harshness purveyors Thedowngoing bely their reduced roster (two incoherent Westies, plus samples) on 'I am Become' (downloadable here) with a incoming tidal wave of chaotic grindcore, eardrum rattling feedback and  programmed unease like Gnaw Their Tongues drunk, angry and lashing out after a bad night on the razz.

From the swirling riff tempest of 'Cutinhalf' to the unsettling, inescapable, yowling space baby (possibly the one pictured) shovelling the world into its star-flecked maw on 'Motionless', Thedowngoing prove able to swerve from moody, sludge-driven squalls to frenzied noisecore hailstorms, with the only constant being the all-pervasive sense of dread and menace that tethers the whole thing right down in the darkest depths of the low end.