Hopefully, when it’s safe to happen again, we can all lose our collective shit to this in a sweaty live setting too. It’s always easy to call a new release an album of the year contender in these early months, but with Mirrors, Pupil Slicer have created such a unique and well-executed, well-written dose of musical extremity that it’s simply unimaginable to think this won’t be featuring high up in the 2021 roundups. There are some quieter passages amongst the butchery too, like the atmospheric outro to ‘L’Appel Du Vide’ and the haunting interlude found in lead single ‘Wounds Upon My Skin’, but even these are filled with underlying unease and a gnawing sense of menace. Completing the threesome is sticksman Josh Andrews, whose whiplash-inducing work on ‘Stabbing Spiders’ and pounding brutality on ‘Save The Dream, Kill Your Friends’ somehow manages to contain the furor with extraordinary skill and precision.Ĭovering complex topics such as abuse, anxiety and depression, Mirrors is far from a comfortable listen, with Davies’ powerful screams often bolstered further by the guttural bellow of four-stringer Fabian. Her caustic, scattergun riffs bounce off the brutal bass tones of Luke Fabian with unnerving ease check out the urgent push and pull of ‘Vilified’ and the chugging, pick scrape littered savagery of ‘Husk’. In Kate Davies, they have one formidable vocalist, and an even more incredible guitarist. The slices are remapped into a slit within the spectrograph using optical fibers. Imagine the attack of Ithaca, the rhythmic left turns of Car Bomb and the carnage of Napalm Death and you’ve got a fair indication of what being in the company of Pupil Slicer is like. This technique, called slicing, either subdivides the stellar image at the focal plane (reducing the effective ) or subdivides an intermediate image of the telescope s entrance pupil (reducing the effective Dtel) to maintain high R.
Mirrors is the debut full-length album from this ridiculously talented London-based trio, and it has all the piss and vinegar, all the unbridled fury and confidence of a band ready to take on the world. With metallic hardcore riffs that cut and dice their way through a cacophony of mathcore and grind-fuelled rage, Pupil Slicer make music to be felt writhing deep underneath the skin.
Pupil Slicer are on tour from February 21.The band name gives it away this music is razor sharp, visceral and raw. This article was originally printed in December’s one-off live music special. Get ready for the angriest – but most fun – new band you’ll see in 2022. Follow your favorite artists, discover new music, and be part of a. You’ll get the chance to experience a Pupil Slicer show this month, when they head out on tour with Rolo Tomassi, before a summer when Kate wants to play “every festival under the sun”. International heavy metal webzine featuring forums, publications, news, and archives. Some of our riffs are meant to make you pull a funny face!” This catharsis is crucial to the band’s appeal, with Kate adamant that, “I want people to be energised, and wanna go mosh, do spin kicks in the pit and jump off the stage – like a big energy release. “It’s quite funny that I seem to be able to manifest this different persona for performing that’s a really strong outlet for talking about these issues.” “I’m not a very outspoken person in my personal life,” Kate reveals. As their music has developed into something consistently chaotic with maximum brutality, so Kate’s lyrics retain a savage edge despite moving far beyond gore, dealing with their own experiences of depression and anxiety along with anger at the discrimination and violence directed at the trans community to which they belong.
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