With its limitless capacity to create, mutate and destroy sound in all its forms, electronic music has always found a comfortable home in the realm of horror – either as accompaniment to frightening or suspenseful imagery, or a trigger for nightmarish moods and images lurking within the listener's own imagination. Winnipeg-based indie act Distorted Memory, the creation of composer/songwriter Jeremy Pillipow, has developed a solid following based on their skills in the latter, and while their material might be loosely classified as Ebm or aggro-tech, at heart they're an avant-garde unit that warps and transforms itself to fit many different moods. Over the years they've been gradually folding a much broader range of genres into the mix, including vintage dance grooves, tribal beats, and harsh black metal vocals, a formula which solidified in the 2011 release Swallowing the Sun. At that stage the band was sometimes being associated with the so-called...
- 8/1/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
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