From their PR firm’s website, “ANTIMOZDEBEAST, the experimental project from Gabriel Palacio, is preparing to delve further into otherworldly realms in the forthcoming album “The Alien Machine.” ANTIMOZDEBEAST draws heavily from industrial, heavy and electronic music in the creation of dynamic and dissonant soundscapes.  “The Alien Machine‘s” track listing presents an uncanny demonstration of chaos and serenity carefully crafted through chord progressions, highly textural synths and rhythmic beats form immersive atmospheres. Contradictions of light and shade are present between the tracks, and ANTIMOZDEBEAST transports the listener to another dimension, in order to reveal the dark and hectic nature of our own world.”

The album has five songs, and “Antigone” is first. There is a heavy, industrial and electronic sound, and the repeated pattern is almost like subliminal messages being pumped into your brain. There are no vocals, so the futuristic sound is meant to soak into your skin slowly, and corrode you from the inside out. “War Dance” is another electronically heavy song that is tinged in the background with some darkness. It’s easy to take this pill because it repeats a similar pattern every four bars. “Sanctuary” is shortest on the album, and features a repeated buzzing pattern from the sterile electronic strikes, as well and some textures in the background in support.

“Poisoned” has a more ethereal sound to it, almost as if the angry strikes have relaxed a bit…at first anyway. Then some of the sternness returns, with a side of psychedelica. “Ode Wise Dragon” closes the album. I swear, I can hear the dragon awakening and see the dragon making nefarious plans. This was a very personal album seen through the lens of one composer, and it challenges the very notion of what music even is. Although some of it is more like background ambiance, it did make me feel a peculiar way, which although is hard to describe, is the very point of music in the first place.