Music: Experimental Metal/Nu Jazz
Website: http://www.myspace.com/hunabku
Country: U.S.A
Cool songs: Houdinis Achilles Heel, Midnight Assassin
The first album of HUNAB KU, a rear pearl or stinky shit? Well, from the beginning, the band was formed some time ago in Chicago and they took their name from some kind of a Mayan godlike thing. Eventually, the divinity ends exactly at this level, because what they are trying to sell us has not got anything to do with godlike sound or worshipping (them).
From the very beginning it is audible that the musicians ate their fingers when trying to copy the DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN style and motifs. Of course it is obvious that they have got some talent and they try to sell it in the best possible way. But it seems that there is a thick line of misunderstanding. First of all, the material mostly does not sound like music at all, even the prophetic DILLINGER in their most wacky and phantasmal compositions do not sound as twisted as HUNAB KU. Their music is a kind of a mixture of death riffs with complete and sheer chaos. Even the samples provided by Gilmore are not able to overcome the feeling of being bombed by incomprehensible and totally dumb concept of creation. Just to explain, the riffs (if there are some) are pretty harsh and very machine like. They are sharp and vicious. Although those are only moments, because quite often there is an impression that the musicians are actually playing on their own, that is everybody plays his own thing at a time, therefore something totally odd appears in the end. The amount of heaviness is quite big and really crushes, but that strumming on the nerves string mostly annoys. Therefore the material seems to be still not so thought over and leaves us with a feeling of disappointment.
What is their problem? There is not any. The thing is that the musicians should try to find their own style, and by that I do not mean mixing everything what is possible with incomprehensible and incoherent prophetic ideas. A bit of simplicity and understanding of themselves would succeed with a more coherent and inconvenient, or even eccentric album. Instead of that we have a broken kaleidoscope which they have tried to fix by placing too many elements inside.
note: 5/10
Tracklist
1. Houdinis Achilles Heel
2. Cloud of Synthetic Locust
3. Murmurs of Asmodai
4. The Departure
5. Pecking Out My Stained Glass Eye
6. Midnight Assassin
7. Teetering on the Edge of Nothingness
Total playing time 23:00
Line-up
Mike Gilmore – vocals, samples
Luke Jaeger – guitar
Matt Finn – bass
Mark Villano – drums
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