Do you feel the same profoundly torturous experience of existence shared by your neighborhood metalhead… but also want to rave like you’re an ecstasy-hopped up festival kid? Fans of EBM—from the internationally beloved big guns in Boy Harsher to local artists like Richard Haig—will find much to love in Exponential Decay, the newest album by Blood Rave.
Based in the North Bay, the dark electronic project by James Rogers offers a pulsing, seductively monolithic palisade of beats, guided along by a voice dripping with dread, disappointment, disgust. As dark as it gets, the productions are delicious on either a big soundsystem or good pair of headphones. Try not to dance.
