Mala In Se

Mala In Se

Written by: PP on 14/08/2011 03:54:15

Mala In Se, from Cincinnati, Ohio, are a prime example of mathcore gone wrong. Their self-titled debut album is one which takes in influences from jazz, avant-garde metal, experimental music and noisecore, arranging it together in unpredictable mathcore time signatures. But where such a combination of genres has often resulted into good things, here it's a bloody mess of different styles shoveled on top of one another, with a unmelodic screaming type on top who makes next to no effort to distinguish one track from another.

The resulting record is a mess of loud, distorted shouting and experimentation in avant-garde and mathcore, but with few, if any, vibes or ideas that the sounds is actually going anywhere. You have a lot of chaotic stuff, but where Converge makes an art form out of chaos, Mala In Se just sound like they are lost, confused, or both at the same time. The good mathcore acts tend to give you an intense blast of nonsensical metallic energy, and the great avant-garde acts tend to charm their listener with incredibly weird sound/structure combinations to make them stand out. Mala In Se, simply put, do neither. They just sound mathcore/avant-garde/jazz for no reason at all.

4

Download: Any track
For the fans of: Noisy mathcore with avant-garde aspirations
Listen: Myspace

Release date 29.10.2010
Phatry Records

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