{"id":547229,"date":"2026-04-23T22:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547229\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:56:10","slug":"aversio-humanitatis-to-become-the-endless-static-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547229\/","title":{"rendered":"Aversio Humanitatis – To Become the Endless Static Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The thing I am most afraid of is losing my mind. The progressive destruction dementia wreaks upon a brain is upsetting enough to endure from the outside, but the horror of that brain potentially being mine is a thought that keeps me up at night. While not explicitly about dementia, To Become the Endless Static follows the disintegration of a person\u2019s mind as \u201c[a]ll pathways, dreams and connections to what once formed their identity spiral down, merging into the great nothing, the endless static.\u201d It\u2019s a frightening, abstract concept that naturally suits Aversio Humanitatis\u2019 brand of freeform dissonant black metal, which here takes a turn for the still more intense and unsettling. The group have garnered a reputation for long rumination between releases, and though not everyone might agree<\/a>, 2020\u2019s Behold the Silent Dwellers demonstrated the fruitfulness of this approach with its nine-year-awaited greatness. Six years on, with the sophomore but a shadow in the nebulous past, the apparition of Endless Static portended greatness once more, in addition to a genuinely scary theme. I was only too happy to indulge my masochism.<\/p>\n

Much like the march of time and an incurable disease, Endless Static does not wait until you\u2019re ready before attacking. \u201cLong Stretch the Shadows\u201d threatens whiplash as it erupts off the start line with relentless percussion and tremolos bending at uncomfortable angles. It epitomises the shift in Aversio Humanitatis\u2019 already extreme and dissonant style towards a still more complex, confrontational, and often faster version of itself, which dominates across the album. Rhythms shift more frequently, and the distortion wrought by the layering of agonised roars and churning riffs is more clamorous; even the slower aspects are more haunting. Endless Static sees a leaning into a chaotic splendour akin to a sped-up Patristic, a more acerbic Schammasch, rendered in a deceptively melodic, deeply atmospheric way that at turns also recalls Aeviterne and Selbst. But Aversio Humanitatis prefer to create their mournfulness and urgency by disguising it as dissonance in a way distinct from any of the above. Endless Static is a masterful distillation of this practice: a soundscape whose violently aversive face admits more honesty and beauty the more you allow it.<\/p>\n

\ufeffTo Become the Endless Static by Aversio Humanitatis<\/a><\/p>\n

Endless Static doesn\u2019t just embody its concept generally; it lives it viscerally. The lurching of discordant scales (title track, \u201cBlackened Mold Marrow\u201d), and repeated strip-back and surge in of percussion (\u201cLong Stretch\u2026,\u201d \u201cCollapsing into the Resonance\u201d) is upsetting yet mesmerising. And its transformation into a stumbling sway (\u201cStrange Angles,\u201d \u201cThe White Noise is Calling\u201d) elevates unease with doubt. Shuddering, multitracked screams, cymbals panting like laboured breaths, and disorienting rhythm and riff patterns (\u201cStrange Angles,\u201d \u201cBlackened Mold Marrow\u201d) express the nightmare of incurable confusion. The soft creep of a melancholic tremolo behind the recurrent tumbles of percussion, and the bleeding of their melody into the pervasive atmosphere (title track, \u201cCollapsing\u2026\u201d) communicate the grief of loss and the fear of the future. These patterns develop with the runtime too: the tightness with which harmony is sealed into overtly cold guitar lines slowly loosens and vocals slip more frequently into a desperate, anguished wail, culminating in the stirring lead melodies and devastating resistance of closing duo \u201cThe White Noise\u2026\u201d and \u201cCollapsing\u2026\u201d All the while, the terror-amplifying resonance of the vocals and sinister edge to the riffs never ceases to feel frightening. But Aversio Humanitatis\u2019 ability to shape these dissonant waves of assault into something beautiful without compromising on this affecting frightfulness makes Endless Static greatly more compelling than it otherwise might have been.<\/p>\n

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That Aversio Humanitatis can communicate all this so compellingly in a mere 35 minutes makes it that much more impactful. The speed at which \u201cLong Stretch\u2026\u201d\u2018s confrontational unease becomes the ardour-filled protest \u201cCollapsing\u2026\u201d is upsetting\u2014another metaphor perhaps. This brings me to my only real complaint about Endless Static, which is how short it is; though I suppose it\u2019s better to have brilliance and be left hungry than have a flawed abundance. I must, more importantly, draw attention to the drumming\u2014courtesy of J.H\u2014that rivals last year\u2019s Patristic in its tenacity, dynamism, and unhinged precision whilst being so ridiculously fast and expressive (\u201cBlackened Mold Marrow\u201d has my jaw on the floor). Its speed and violence play no small part in Endless Static\u2019s horror. I am also sometimes drawn to wonder if vocalist A.M is actually undergoing some phantasmagorical transformation, so wild and terrifying are his howls.<\/p>\n

Dissonant black metal bands and degenerative diseases operate in the shadows, but Aversio Humanitatis now, if never before, deserves all the light we can cast on them. But more likely that this hypnotically horrifying work will yank you violently into its darkness. Harrowingly inexorable even in its brevity, one can\u2019t escape the draw To Become the Endless Static.<\/p>\n

\ufeff<\/p>\n

Rating: Excellent
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Debemur Morti Productions<\/a>
Websites: Official<\/a> | Bandcamp<\/a> | Facebook<\/a>
Releases Worldwide: April 24th, 2026<\/p>\n

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