The Halluci Nation make a thrilling return on their new EP The Path of The Heel, a wild-eyed four track descent into rampaging drum and bass. The collection serves as the first preview of their two-part The Road To Halluci Mania — a project that takes immense inspiration from the theatrical world of wrestling. You’ll want to keep an eye out for part two when it arrives sometime early next year!
In the narrative of The Road To Halluci Mania, duo Bear Witness and Tim “2oolman” Hill emerge as heroic tag-team champions facing down a host of enemies in the form of The Alie Nation — the direct nemesis of The Halluci Nation. Led by a character voiced by Fucked Up singer Damian Abraham, it is from the perspective of this antagonistic faction that The Path of The Heel is told, lending the music therein a ferociously magnetic kineticism.
Opening tracks “Tree of Woe” and “ALie Nation” serve as the introduction to Abraham’s captivating and fearsome role. Against a backdrop of thunderous electronica he issues a feverish manifesto — howling as if from center ring of a massive stadium — competing with the concussive dubstep drops that plummet all around.
The second half of the EP finds The Halluci Nation joined by powwow singing group Northern Cree. Here, the tone of the songs shift from furious delirium toward the ecstatically triumphant. On “The Eater of Worlds” they splice samples of Northern Cree’s swooping wails into exhilarating crescendos of industrial-sized synths — at times even distortedly warping them into the electronic textures and sonics themselves.
Outro “Atomic Drop” starts off steeped in a haunting but entrancing performance by the Northern Cree, their soaring ululations and stalwart drums thrumming toward some unseen or yet unheard rapture. Slowly but surely an injection of buzzing and blitzing electro-bass finds its way into their exultant song. Entwining the two in a dynamo kept spinning by its frenzied drums and the boisterous Northern Cree.
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