Res Ipsa Loquitur: the Latin phrase which means “The thing speaks for itself.” The Idaho band Possessive (a collaboration among members of bands such as Hummingbird of Death, Tempestarii, and Lunar Temple) chose that phrase as the name of their new album because they wanted their genre-splicing musical havoc to speak for itself.
In light of that, it’s tempting to simply provide you the stream of the album track we’re premiering today, without comment. But we want to speak for the song, and Possessive have also provided some comments about what they’ve done, fleshing out the significance of the album’s name, and we want to share that too. So let’s begin there:
Possessive really wants the name to kind of speak for itself.
So the second album is titled Res Ipsa Loquitur, and that’s Latin for “the thing speaks for itself”. And that’s really the concept behind the second album: trying to be as fucking heavy as possible, while also having a lot of influences from Powerviolence to D-beat and Black Metal and ultimately speaking for itself, it is what it is.
Compared to our first release, this album is more experimental in nature, with darker undertones, more atmosphere, and a more mature feeling overall. We also wanted an album that felt like you were hanging out with us in an hallucinated realm of consciousness, outside of society, outside of ourselves, just in a place all-consuming, ugly, and dark.
The song we’re now premiering — “Instigation” — is entirely in keeping with those comments from Possessive. Lyrically, it’s drug-addled, hallucinatory, cryptic, frightening. The final words are these: “It’s now making it form, if my arms were not on. To be overcome is a fear from my womb. The spins almost over. It feels almost over. It spins up and off.”
In the song itself, the words seem to echo from a great void, a howling horror trying to cross over. Much closer, the drums rumble, pop, and detonate in blasts, while abrasively grit-coated riffage dismally wails and maniacally spasms.
A bass coldly clangs by itself, a precursor to scalding screams, brutish stomps, and ruinous, hopeless chords that also clang, and that savagely gouge sanity like ugly claws and chewing fangs.
At the end, that bass gets excited, because it knows how the song will end — in a paroxysm of powerviolence — drums convulsing, a voice screaming, the distorted guitar becoming a sandblasting seizure.
As we say in the trade, this ain’t for the faint of heart.
POSSESSIVE is:
Vocals/ Drums – Rutger Vanderlaan
Noise/ Bass – Cory Hentrup
Noise/ Guitar – Marco “Chubbs” Gonzalez
Res Ipsa Loquitur was recorded and mixed in Fruitland, Idaho by Jesse Wetzel. It was mastered in Boise, Idaho at One Man Clan Productions by Francisco Sanchez. The album’s striking cover art and layout were done by Evokaos (Brucia Records).
Brucia Records will release the album on November 7th in a special slipcase CD edition that includes a 12-page booklet and poster. They’ll also make it available without charge as a digital download.
Brucia calls the music “Caustic, suffocating and eerie Blackened Death/Doom Metal mixed with the savagery of D-beat and Powerviolence,” and they recommend it for fans of Body Void, Primitive Man, Spectral Voice, and Full of Hell.
PRE-ORDER:
https://store.bruciarecords.com/product/possessive-res-ipsa-loquitur-blackened-death-doom-cd
POSSESSIVE:
https://possessive.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/possessive.band/
https://www.facebook.com/possessiveband