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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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"US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide"
"The US supports Israel unconditionally... Where Israel's national interest & America's national interest diverge, the US pursues what is in Israel's national interest." Bcz of the Israel lobby.
The Greater Israel strategy is to expand the borders; ethnically cleanse the territory; & ensure their neighbors are as weak as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQLRDDmU6Q
#USPol #EUPol #IranWar #news #GreaterIsrael #USIsraelPolicy #palestine .
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Why does no one talk about #APT42 propensity to bring a towel?
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/untangling-iran-apt42-operations/
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Why does no one talk about #APT42 propensity to bring a towel?
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/untangling-iran-apt42-operations/
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Why does no one talk about #APT42 propensity to bring a towel?
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/untangling-iran-apt42-operations/
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Why does no one talk about #APT42 propensity to bring a towel?
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/untangling-iran-apt42-operations/
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By Dear Hollow
It’s sexy when things you love collide with things you hate. My lust for mathcore is well-established – I go hard for that mind-numbing dyscalculic tinnitus any day – but if you put a slab of prog metal in front of me, I’m gonna go as flaccid as a gummy worm in a hot car faster than you can say “Wilderun.” That’s Benthos. The Italian collective slides a platter of progressive rock’s lush, ambivalent, and emotive movements alongside mathcore’s jagged edges and feral energy, and you’re guaranteed to find something you’ll love and hate – and get hot and bothered by. It’s core’s sellout and prog’s elitism personified in the dichotomy of the heavenly and hellish – yet in your divinely appointed and coarsely deadly free will, you decide which is which. In the words of the wisest, “yeet and yoink” with this particular Haken-themed hatefuck.
Benthos has been around since 2018, and gained recognition in their hometown of Milan by opening for The Contortionist and appearing in the Dissonance Festival in 2023. From Nothing is their debut full-length, although they released the ironically titled EP/mini-album II in 2021. Settled upon a foundation of lush melodies and evasive chord progressions before exploding into frantic Dillinger-inspired rhythm abuse, the act wavers between super serious and frantically silly, soulful cleans colliding haphazardly with demonic shrieks. From Nothing is ambitious in fusing two styles strangely congruous but also not at all, but in the end Benthos is exactly split down the middle, its arrhythmic beatdowns stealing the spotlight from masturbatory prog sections, blurring into some ambivalently erotic background.
First glances of Benthos are synth-heavy progressions and killer vocals. Gabriele Landillo has a formidable set of pipes, their post-hardcore-meets-Chino Moreno vibe lending a creeping sexiness (“Let Me Plunge,” “The Giant Child”) and a desperate belt that adds serious dynamic and show-stealing propensity (“From Nothing,” “Pure”), keeping the more uninteresting passages from descending into drearier monotony. Without careful listening, however, the proggier tracks blur together in a blurry pastel mesh in sprawling layered atmospheric rock tricks – serious synth on guitar action – with interspersed chuggy portions, feeling like a less nuanced songwriting a la (recent) The Contortionist or The Fall of Troy. Speaking of your favorite dark romance crooner Chino, From Nothing feels quite a bit like Deftones’ Gore in its decision to put include metal as a mere monument marker on the jaded journey to the pits of prog – ultimately, a bit of a cockblock. Benthos mixing is likewise stellar, Alberto Fiorani’s dummy thicc bass as audible as the cheek-clapping guitars and slamming drums.
Of its two audio halves, Benthos’ more chaotic mathcore attacks offer the best listening experience. After the vastly longwinded four-song introductory blur, the intro to “As a Cordyceps” introduces what makes From Nothing worth a bit more. Practically brimming with energy, the mathcore technicality and hardcore intensity finally kick in. This continues into the easy highlights that dispense the prog fluff into something that feels cutthroat and quirky, wonky leads weaponized with nimble and mind-bending rhythms (“Fossil,” “Athletic Worms,” “Perpetual Drone Monkeys”). These give Benthos more breathing room when the proggy sensibilities raise their ill-smelling feet, offering nuance to otherwise unwelcoming rooms. These also incorporate more of these chunkier vibes into more mundane moments, letting the rhythms inject a tasteful – albeit short-lived – dose of intensity (“The Giant Child,” “Pure”).
The best and worst part about From Nothing is that Benthos manages to sound both bored to tears and absolutely apeshit depending on which part you tune into. Its moments of unhinged insanity are too few and far between to warrant consistency or balance… or a solid recommendation. But if you’re like Dolphin Whisperer and like your music hot and heavy, while disrobing From Nothing’s many sexy layers and textured sprawls, take a cold shower before venturing out to pick up a copy.1 Benthos offers promise with the softness for the foreplay and the vigor for the penetration, but From Nothing has difficulty keeping it up across its forty-five minute runtime with too-long portions of pretty monotony2 and excessive indulgence,3 but armed with a vocalist both sexy and devastating and an instrumental presence as bonkers as it is patient… goddammit, I need a cold shower now.4
Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Inside Out Music
Websites: benthosmusic.bandcamp.com | benthos-band.com | facebook.com/benthosbandofficial
Releases Worldwide: April 11th, 2025#25 #2025 #Apr25 #Benthos #Deftones #FromNothing #Haken #InsideOutMusic #ItalianMetal #Mathcore #ProgressiveMetal #ProgressiveRock #Review #Reviews #TheContortionist #TheDillingerEscapePlan #TheFallOfTroy #Wilderun
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By Dear Hollow
It’s sexy when things you love collide with things you hate. My lust for mathcore is well-established – I go hard for that mind-numbing dyscalculic tinnitus any day – but if you put a slab of prog metal in front of me, I’m gonna go as flaccid as a gummy worm in a hot car faster than you can say “Wilderun.” That’s Benthos. The Italian collective slides a platter of progressive rock’s lush, ambivalent, and emotive movements alongside mathcore’s jagged edges and feral energy, and you’re guaranteed to find something you’ll love and hate – and get hot and bothered by. It’s core’s sellout and prog’s elitism personified in the dichotomy of the heavenly and hellish – yet in your divinely appointed and coarsely deadly free will, you decide which is which. In the words of the wisest, “yeet and yoink” with this particular Haken-themed hatefuck.
Benthos has been around since 2018, and gained recognition in their hometown of Milan by opening for The Contortionist and appearing in the Dissonance Festival in 2023. From Nothing is their debut full-length, although they released the ironically titled EP/mini-album II in 2021. Settled upon a foundation of lush melodies and evasive chord progressions before exploding into frantic Dillinger-inspired rhythm abuse, the act wavers between super serious and frantically silly, soulful cleans colliding haphazardly with demonic shrieks. From Nothing is ambitious in fusing two styles strangely congruous but also not at all, but in the end Benthos is exactly split down the middle, its arrhythmic beatdowns stealing the spotlight from masturbatory prog sections, blurring into some ambivalently erotic background.
First glances of Benthos are synth-heavy progressions and killer vocals. Gabriele Landillo has a formidable set of pipes, their post-hardcore-meets-Chino Moreno vibe lending a creeping sexiness (“Let Me Plunge,” “The Giant Child”) and a desperate belt that adds serious dynamic and show-stealing propensity (“From Nothing,” “Pure”), keeping the more uninteresting passages from descending into drearier monotony. Without careful listening, however, the proggier tracks blur together in a blurry pastel mesh in sprawling layered atmospheric rock tricks – serious synth on guitar action – with interspersed chuggy portions, feeling like a less nuanced songwriting a la (recent) The Contortionist or The Fall of Troy. Speaking of your favorite dark romance crooner Chino, From Nothing feels quite a bit like Deftones’ Gore in its decision to put include metal as a mere monument marker on the jaded journey to the pits of prog – ultimately, a bit of a cockblock. Benthos mixing is likewise stellar, Alberto Fiorani’s dummy thicc bass as audible as the cheek-clapping guitars and slamming drums.
Of its two audio halves, Benthos’ more chaotic mathcore attacks offer the best listening experience. After the vastly longwinded four-song introductory blur, the intro to “As a Cordyceps” introduces what makes From Nothing worth a bit more. Practically brimming with energy, the mathcore technicality and hardcore intensity finally kick in. This continues into the easy highlights that dispense the prog fluff into something that feels cutthroat and quirky, wonky leads weaponized with nimble and mind-bending rhythms (“Fossil,” “Athletic Worms,” “Perpetual Drone Monkeys”). These give Benthos more breathing room when the proggy sensibilities raise their ill-smelling feet, offering nuance to otherwise unwelcoming rooms. These also incorporate more of these chunkier vibes into more mundane moments, letting the rhythms inject a tasteful – albeit short-lived – dose of intensity (“The Giant Child,” “Pure”).
The best and worst part about From Nothing is that Benthos manages to sound both bored to tears and absolutely apeshit depending on which part you tune into. Its moments of unhinged insanity are too few and far between to warrant consistency or balance… or a solid recommendation. But if you’re like Dolphin Whisperer and like your music hot and heavy, while disrobing From Nothing’s many sexy layers and textured sprawls, take a cold shower before venturing out to pick up a copy.1 Benthos offers promise with the softness for the foreplay and the vigor for the penetration, but From Nothing has difficulty keeping it up across its forty-five minute runtime with too-long portions of pretty monotony2 and excessive indulgence,3 but armed with a vocalist both sexy and devastating and an instrumental presence as bonkers as it is patient… goddammit, I need a cold shower now.4
Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Inside Out Music
Websites: benthosmusic.bandcamp.com | benthos-band.com | facebook.com/benthosbandofficial
Releases Worldwide: April 11th, 2025#25 #2025 #Apr25 #Benthos #Deftones #FromNothing #Haken #InsideOutMusic #ItalianMetal #Mathcore #ProgressiveMetal #ProgressiveRock #Review #Reviews #TheContortionist #TheDillingerEscapePlan #TheFallOfTroy #Wilderun
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By Dear Hollow
It’s sexy when things you love collide with things you hate. My lust for mathcore is well-established – I go hard for that mind-numbing dyscalculic tinnitus any day – but if you put a slab of prog metal in front of me, I’m gonna go as flaccid as a gummy worm in a hot car faster than you can say “Wilderun.” That’s Benthos. The Italian collective slides a platter of progressive rock’s lush, ambivalent, and emotive movements alongside mathcore’s jagged edges and feral energy, and you’re guaranteed to find something you’ll love and hate – and get hot and bothered by. It’s core’s sellout and prog’s elitism personified in the dichotomy of the heavenly and hellish – yet in your divinely appointed and coarsely deadly free will, you decide which is which. In the words of the wisest, “yeet and yoink” with this particular Haken-themed hatefuck.
Benthos has been around since 2018, and gained recognition in their hometown of Milan by opening for The Contortionist and appearing in the Dissonance Festival in 2023. From Nothing is their debut full-length, although they released the ironically titled EP/mini-album II in 2021. Settled upon a foundation of lush melodies and evasive chord progressions before exploding into frantic Dillinger-inspired rhythm abuse, the act wavers between super serious and frantically silly, soulful cleans colliding haphazardly with demonic shrieks. From Nothing is ambitious in fusing two styles strangely congruous but also not at all, but in the end Benthos is exactly split down the middle, its arrhythmic beatdowns stealing the spotlight from masturbatory prog sections, blurring into some ambivalently erotic background.
First glances of Benthos are synth-heavy progressions and killer vocals. Gabriele Landillo has a formidable set of pipes, their post-hardcore-meets-Chino Moreno vibe lending a creeping sexiness (“Let Me Plunge,” “The Giant Child”) and a desperate belt that adds serious dynamic and show-stealing propensity (“From Nothing,” “Pure”), keeping the more uninteresting passages from descending into drearier monotony. Without careful listening, however, the proggier tracks blur together in a blurry pastel mesh in sprawling layered atmospheric rock tricks – serious synth on guitar action – with interspersed chuggy portions, feeling like a less nuanced songwriting a la (recent) The Contortionist or The Fall of Troy. Speaking of your favorite dark romance crooner Chino, From Nothing feels quite a bit like Deftones’ Gore in its decision to put include metal as a mere monument marker on the jaded journey to the pits of prog – ultimately, a bit of a cockblock. Benthos mixing is likewise stellar, Alberto Fiorani’s dummy thicc bass as audible as the cheek-clapping guitars and slamming drums.
Of its two audio halves, Benthos’ more chaotic mathcore attacks offer the best listening experience. After the vastly longwinded four-song introductory blur, the intro to “As a Cordyceps” introduces what makes From Nothing worth a bit more. Practically brimming with energy, the mathcore technicality and hardcore intensity finally kick in. This continues into the easy highlights that dispense the prog fluff into something that feels cutthroat and quirky, wonky leads weaponized with nimble and mind-bending rhythms (“Fossil,” “Athletic Worms,” “Perpetual Drone Monkeys”). These give Benthos more breathing room when the proggy sensibilities raise their ill-smelling feet, offering nuance to otherwise unwelcoming rooms. These also incorporate more of these chunkier vibes into more mundane moments, letting the rhythms inject a tasteful – albeit short-lived – dose of intensity (“The Giant Child,” “Pure”).
The best and worst part about From Nothing is that Benthos manages to sound both bored to tears and absolutely apeshit depending on which part you tune into. Its moments of unhinged insanity are too few and far between to warrant consistency or balance… or a solid recommendation. But if you’re like Dolphin Whisperer and like your music hot and heavy, while disrobing From Nothing’s many sexy layers and textured sprawls, take a cold shower before venturing out to pick up a copy.1 Benthos offers promise with the softness for the foreplay and the vigor for the penetration, but From Nothing has difficulty keeping it up across its forty-five minute runtime with too-long portions of pretty monotony2 and excessive indulgence,3 but armed with a vocalist both sexy and devastating and an instrumental presence as bonkers as it is patient… goddammit, I need a cold shower now.4
Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Inside Out Music
Websites: benthosmusic.bandcamp.com | benthos-band.com | facebook.com/benthosbandofficial
Releases Worldwide: April 11th, 2025#25 #2025 #Apr25 #Benthos #Deftones #FromNothing #Haken #InsideOutMusic #ItalianMetal #Mathcore #ProgressiveMetal #ProgressiveRock #Review #Reviews #TheContortionist #TheDillingerEscapePlan #TheFallOfTroy #Wilderun
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By Dear Hollow
It’s sexy when things you love collide with things you hate. My lust for mathcore is well-established – I go hard for that mind-numbing dyscalculic tinnitus any day – but if you put a slab of prog metal in front of me, I’m gonna go as flaccid as a gummy worm in a hot car faster than you can say “Wilderun.” That’s Benthos. The Italian collective slides a platter of progressive rock’s lush, ambivalent, and emotive movements alongside mathcore’s jagged edges and feral energy, and you’re guaranteed to find something you’ll love and hate – and get hot and bothered by. It’s core’s sellout and prog’s elitism personified in the dichotomy of the heavenly and hellish – yet in your divinely appointed and coarsely deadly free will, you decide which is which. In the words of the wisest, “yeet and yoink” with this particular Haken-themed hatefuck.
Benthos has been around since 2018, and gained recognition in their hometown of Milan by opening for The Contortionist and appearing in the Dissonance Festival in 2023. From Nothing is their debut full-length, although they released the ironically titled EP/mini-album II in 2021. Settled upon a foundation of lush melodies and evasive chord progressions before exploding into frantic Dillinger-inspired rhythm abuse, the act wavers between super serious and frantically silly, soulful cleans colliding haphazardly with demonic shrieks. From Nothing is ambitious in fusing two styles strangely congruous but also not at all, but in the end Benthos is exactly split down the middle, its arrhythmic beatdowns stealing the spotlight from masturbatory prog sections, blurring into some ambivalently erotic background.
First glances of Benthos are synth-heavy progressions and killer vocals. Gabriele Landillo has a formidable set of pipes, their post-hardcore-meets-Chino Moreno vibe lending a creeping sexiness (“Let Me Plunge,” “The Giant Child”) and a desperate belt that adds serious dynamic and show-stealing propensity (“From Nothing,” “Pure”), keeping the more uninteresting passages from descending into drearier monotony. Without careful listening, however, the proggier tracks blur together in a blurry pastel mesh in sprawling layered atmospheric rock tricks – serious synth on guitar action – with interspersed chuggy portions, feeling like a less nuanced songwriting a la (recent) The Contortionist or The Fall of Troy. Speaking of your favorite dark romance crooner Chino, From Nothing feels quite a bit like Deftones’ Gore in its decision to put include metal as a mere monument marker on the jaded journey to the pits of prog – ultimately, a bit of a cockblock. Benthos mixing is likewise stellar, Alberto Fiorani’s dummy thicc bass as audible as the cheek-clapping guitars and slamming drums.
Of its two audio halves, Benthos’ more chaotic mathcore attacks offer the best listening experience. After the vastly longwinded four-song introductory blur, the intro to “As a Cordyceps” introduces what makes From Nothing worth a bit more. Practically brimming with energy, the mathcore technicality and hardcore intensity finally kick in. This continues into the easy highlights that dispense the prog fluff into something that feels cutthroat and quirky, wonky leads weaponized with nimble and mind-bending rhythms (“Fossil,” “Athletic Worms,” “Perpetual Drone Monkeys”). These give Benthos more breathing room when the proggy sensibilities raise their ill-smelling feet, offering nuance to otherwise unwelcoming rooms. These also incorporate more of these chunkier vibes into more mundane moments, letting the rhythms inject a tasteful – albeit short-lived – dose of intensity (“The Giant Child,” “Pure”).
The best and worst part about From Nothing is that Benthos manages to sound both bored to tears and absolutely apeshit depending on which part you tune into. Its moments of unhinged insanity are too few and far between to warrant consistency or balance… or a solid recommendation. But if you’re like Dolphin Whisperer and like your music hot and heavy, while disrobing From Nothing’s many sexy layers and textured sprawls, take a cold shower before venturing out to pick up a copy.1 Benthos offers promise with the softness for the foreplay and the vigor for the penetration, but From Nothing has difficulty keeping it up across its forty-five minute runtime with too-long portions of pretty monotony2 and excessive indulgence,3 but armed with a vocalist both sexy and devastating and an instrumental presence as bonkers as it is patient… goddammit, I need a cold shower now.4
Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Inside Out Music
Websites: benthosmusic.bandcamp.com | benthos-band.com | facebook.com/benthosbandofficial
Releases Worldwide: April 11th, 2025#25 #2025 #Apr25 #Benthos #Deftones #FromNothing #Haken #InsideOutMusic #ItalianMetal #Mathcore #ProgressiveMetal #ProgressiveRock #Review #Reviews #TheContortionist #TheDillingerEscapePlan #TheFallOfTroy #Wilderun
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For anyone interested, here is the recording for my propensity score analysis talk for the NY Open Statistical Group last night. #rstats #nyhackr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLV4mtFhRMM
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By Dear Hollow
Perhaps I misjudged Agrypnie in 2021. Perhaps that 1.5 was a little harsh – maybe I read the words “avant-garde” and saw red. Still, Metamorphosis was a hodgepodge of all things post-y and melodic, dragging the lake with melodeath and symphonic black in reckless abandon, sporting vocal tirades with more propensity for destroying its crystallinity than creating it. In this way, Erg is better, streamlining its attack. It’s still your favorite post-black, with all the frills and hearts prominently planted on their sleeves you expect, but armed with a more prominent riff and a trver vibe, your favorite German post-black duo is back and badder than ever.
I underrated Metamorphosis. Its lasting impression was one of stagnation rather than offensiveness, so I would rate it somewhere in the 2.0 ballpark if I reviewed today.1 Just like in 2021, Agrypnie focuses on subtle and interwoven melodies with plodding guitar riffs, juggled with vocalist/guitarist/bassist Torsten’s grungy barks, significantly toning down the outside influence for something that feels like a more rushed Harakiri for the Sky. Drummer Flo is a tour-de-force as usual, whirlwinds of blastbeats and catchy fills saturating the palette. Sporting a thinner, trver production that still manages muscularity periodically, Erg is nothing but consistent. Erg is redemption, and I’m gonna rate Agrpynie correctly this time.
Erg is at its best when subtle melodies shine through the blazing riffs, and instruments do this effectively. Tracks like opener “Aus rauchlosem Feuer,” “Sturm,” and “Blut – Teil II” offer this balance aplenty, Agrypnie letting its ghostly leads and subtle symphonics float in and out of the main down-tuned riffs. It adds an appropriately haunted aura, dark and unsettling, but ultimately forsakes its roots in sanguinity, a shapeshifting melody that balances between ominous and beautiful. The best tracks here are “Entitat” and “Geister,” due to their incorporation of more muscular riffage that balances out the fragile Deafheaven-esque melody and collaborates with Torsten’s rough vocals more effectively. Each track within Erg is a fairly lengthy affair, with instrumental interlude “Blut – Teil I” alone dipping below five minutes, so Agrypnie divides the workload. Particularly in the first half, each track is composed of two parts, the melody in the exposition creeping and ominous, only to explode in frantic climax in the second. This gives these tracks a definite sense of direction, a comfortable predictability, and a smoother dynamic – as usually the second halves compose the more memorable material. The paper-thin production benefits the more tremolo-guided tracks like “Meer ohne Wasser” and “Entitat,” giving them a razor edge.
The most glaring problem for Agrypnie is a remnant from last go: Torsten’s vocals. You would expect his bark to permeate more hardcore-influenced or post-metal-adjacent in bulkier stylings, but it remains a detriment to the fragile structures that compose post-black’s trademarks.2 Each track, even the highlights, grow weary with the bark swinging in like Miley Cyrus on a wrecking ball. “Meer ohne Wasser,” “Blut – Teil II,” and “Stunde des Wolfes” are derailed painfully by this element, and effective instrumental compositions feel all for naught. While the instruments are effectively performed, the frustration with the thinner production is that it puts all elements on the same level, with riffs, melodies, and vocals all battling for the spotlight, only Flo’s drumming anchoring the proceedings – worsened by Erg’s bloated fifty-four-minute runtime. Unfortunately for Agrypnie, the equilibrium between riff, melody, and vocals remain elusive, and remain in the shadow of better acts in a divisive style.
Harakiri for the Sky may not be upper tier yet, but their effective balance between heart-wrenching melody, head-bobbing riffs, and emotive vocals remains a highlight within post-black. Agrypnie can afford no such luxury. While Erg is a better accomplishment than its predecessor in a more streamlined approach that dispenses of unnecessary influences and scattershot songwriting, it is nonetheless held back by painfully anachronistic vocals and damagingly thin mix. It’s one step in the right direction for Torsten and Flo, but Agrypnie takes one step back. Behold, the correct score.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: AOP Records
Websites: agrypnie.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/agrypnie.official
Releases Worldwide: September 13th, 2024#20 #2024 #Agrypnie #AOPRecords #BlackMetal #Blackgaze #Deafheaven #Erg #GermanMetal #HarakiriForTheSky #PostBlackMetal #Review #Reviews #Sep24
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By Dear Hollow
Perhaps I misjudged Agrypnie in 2021. Perhaps that 1.5 was a little harsh – maybe I read the words “avant-garde” and saw red. Still, Metamorphosis was a hodgepodge of all things post-y and melodic, dragging the lake with melodeath and symphonic black in reckless abandon, sporting vocal tirades with more propensity for destroying its crystallinity than creating it. In this way, Erg is better, streamlining its attack. It’s still your favorite post-black, with all the frills and hearts prominently planted on their sleeves you expect, but armed with a more prominent riff and a trver vibe, your favorite German post-black duo is back and badder than ever.
I underrated Metamorphosis. Its lasting impression was one of stagnation rather than offensiveness, so I would rate it somewhere in the 2.0 ballpark if I reviewed today.1 Just like in 2021, Agrypnie focuses on subtle and interwoven melodies with plodding guitar riffs, juggled with vocalist/guitarist/bassist Torsten’s grungy barks, significantly toning down the outside influence for something that feels like a more rushed Harakiri for the Sky. Drummer Flo is a tour-de-force as usual, whirlwinds of blastbeats and catchy fills saturating the palette. Sporting a thinner, trver production that still manages muscularity periodically, Erg is nothing but consistent. Erg is redemption, and I’m gonna rate Agrpynie correctly this time.
Erg is at its best when subtle melodies shine through the blazing riffs, and instruments do this effectively. Tracks like opener “Aus rauchlosem Feuer,” “Sturm,” and “Blut – Teil II” offer this balance aplenty, Agrypnie letting its ghostly leads and subtle symphonics float in and out of the main down-tuned riffs. It adds an appropriately haunted aura, dark and unsettling, but ultimately forsakes its roots in sanguinity, a shapeshifting melody that balances between ominous and beautiful. The best tracks here are “Entitat” and “Geister,” due to their incorporation of more muscular riffage that balances out the fragile Deafheaven-esque melody and collaborates with Torsten’s rough vocals more effectively. Each track within Erg is a fairly lengthy affair, with instrumental interlude “Blut – Teil I” alone dipping below five minutes, so Agrypnie divides the workload. Particularly in the first half, each track is composed of two parts, the melody in the exposition creeping and ominous, only to explode in frantic climax in the second. This gives these tracks a definite sense of direction, a comfortable predictability, and a smoother dynamic – as usually the second halves compose the more memorable material. The paper-thin production benefits the more tremolo-guided tracks like “Meer ohne Wasser” and “Entitat,” giving them a razor edge.
The most glaring problem for Agrypnie is a remnant from last go: Torsten’s vocals. You would expect his bark to permeate more hardcore-influenced or post-metal-adjacent in bulkier stylings, but it remains a detriment to the fragile structures that compose post-black’s trademarks.2 Each track, even the highlights, grow weary with the bark swinging in like Miley Cyrus on a wrecking ball. “Meer ohne Wasser,” “Blut – Teil II,” and “Stunde des Wolfes” are derailed painfully by this element, and effective instrumental compositions feel all for naught. While the instruments are effectively performed, the frustration with the thinner production is that it puts all elements on the same level, with riffs, melodies, and vocals all battling for the spotlight, only Flo’s drumming anchoring the proceedings – worsened by Erg’s bloated fifty-four-minute runtime. Unfortunately for Agrypnie, the equilibrium between riff, melody, and vocals remain elusive, and remain in the shadow of better acts in a divisive style.
Harakiri for the Sky may not be upper tier yet, but their effective balance between heart-wrenching melody, head-bobbing riffs, and emotive vocals remains a highlight within post-black. Agrypnie can afford no such luxury. While Erg is a better accomplishment than its predecessor in a more streamlined approach that dispenses of unnecessary influences and scattershot songwriting, it is nonetheless held back by painfully anachronistic vocals and damagingly thin mix. It’s one step in the right direction for Torsten and Flo, but Agrypnie takes one step back. Behold, the correct score.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: AOP Records
Websites: agrypnie.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/agrypnie.official
Releases Worldwide: September 13th, 2024#20 #2024 #Agrypnie #AOPRecords #BlackMetal #Blackgaze #Deafheaven #Erg #GermanMetal #HarakiriForTheSky #PostBlackMetal #Review #Reviews #Sep24
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By Dear Hollow
Perhaps I misjudged Agrypnie in 2021. Perhaps that 1.5 was a little harsh – maybe I read the words “avant-garde” and saw red. Still, Metamorphosis was a hodgepodge of all things post-y and melodic, dragging the lake with melodeath and symphonic black in reckless abandon, sporting vocal tirades with more propensity for destroying its crystallinity than creating it. In this way, Erg is better, streamlining its attack. It’s still your favorite post-black, with all the frills and hearts prominently planted on their sleeves you expect, but armed with a more prominent riff and a trver vibe, your favorite German post-black duo is back and badder than ever.
I underrated Metamorphosis. Its lasting impression was one of stagnation rather than offensiveness, so I would rate it somewhere in the 2.0 ballpark if I reviewed today.1 Just like in 2021, Agrypnie focuses on subtle and interwoven melodies with plodding guitar riffs, juggled with vocalist/guitarist/bassist Torsten’s grungy barks, significantly toning down the outside influence for something that feels like a more rushed Harakiri for the Sky. Drummer Flo is a tour-de-force as usual, whirlwinds of blastbeats and catchy fills saturating the palette. Sporting a thinner, trver production that still manages muscularity periodically, Erg is nothing but consistent. Erg is redemption, and I’m gonna rate Agrpynie correctly this time.
Erg is at its best when subtle melodies shine through the blazing riffs, and instruments do this effectively. Tracks like opener “Aus rauchlosem Feuer,” “Sturm,” and “Blut – Teil II” offer this balance aplenty, Agrypnie letting its ghostly leads and subtle symphonics float in and out of the main down-tuned riffs. It adds an appropriately haunted aura, dark and unsettling, but ultimately forsakes its roots in sanguinity, a shapeshifting melody that balances between ominous and beautiful. The best tracks here are “Entitat” and “Geister,” due to their incorporation of more muscular riffage that balances out the fragile Deafheaven-esque melody and collaborates with Torsten’s rough vocals more effectively. Each track within Erg is a fairly lengthy affair, with instrumental interlude “Blut – Teil I” alone dipping below five minutes, so Agrypnie divides the workload. Particularly in the first half, each track is composed of two parts, the melody in the exposition creeping and ominous, only to explode in frantic climax in the second. This gives these tracks a definite sense of direction, a comfortable predictability, and a smoother dynamic – as usually the second halves compose the more memorable material. The paper-thin production benefits the more tremolo-guided tracks like “Meer ohne Wasser” and “Entitat,” giving them a razor edge.
The most glaring problem for Agrypnie is a remnant from last go: Torsten’s vocals. You would expect his bark to permeate more hardcore-influenced or post-metal-adjacent in bulkier stylings, but it remains a detriment to the fragile structures that compose post-black’s trademarks.2 Each track, even the highlights, grow weary with the bark swinging in like Miley Cyrus on a wrecking ball. “Meer ohne Wasser,” “Blut – Teil II,” and “Stunde des Wolfes” are derailed painfully by this element, and effective instrumental compositions feel all for naught. While the instruments are effectively performed, the frustration with the thinner production is that it puts all elements on the same level, with riffs, melodies, and vocals all battling for the spotlight, only Flo’s drumming anchoring the proceedings – worsened by Erg’s bloated fifty-four-minute runtime. Unfortunately for Agrypnie, the equilibrium between riff, melody, and vocals remain elusive, and remain in the shadow of better acts in a divisive style.
Harakiri for the Sky may not be upper tier yet, but their effective balance between heart-wrenching melody, head-bobbing riffs, and emotive vocals remains a highlight within post-black. Agrypnie can afford no such luxury. While Erg is a better accomplishment than its predecessor in a more streamlined approach that dispenses of unnecessary influences and scattershot songwriting, it is nonetheless held back by painfully anachronistic vocals and damagingly thin mix. It’s one step in the right direction for Torsten and Flo, but Agrypnie takes one step back. Behold, the correct score.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: AOP Records
Websites: agrypnie.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/agrypnie.official
Releases Worldwide: September 13th, 2024#20 #2024 #Agrypnie #AOPRecords #BlackMetal #Blackgaze #Deafheaven #Erg #GermanMetal #HarakiriForTheSky #PostBlackMetal #Review #Reviews #Sep24
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A new #study using #PropensityBench, a benchmark for measuring #AIagents’ propensity to use #harmfultools, found that #realisticpressures like #deadlines and #financiallosses significantly increase #misbehaviour rates. The study tested a dozen models from various companies across nearly 6,000 scenarios, revealing that even under zero pressure, the average failure rate was 19%. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-safety?eicker.news #tech #media #news