Devour

Marcus ViniciusNov 2, 202616 plays

After a more atmospheric and introspective work on "Contact" that despite still feeling poingnant, did not felt as impactful as her previous efforts, Pharmakon comes back to deliver to us more of her wonderful tortured music - giving continuity to the body horror thematic of her work, "Devour" drifts away from agonizing about how our bodies can betray ourself and expunging all of the pains of sickness through noise music to look it from another perspective - a sort of devouring itself nature, our body can betray us and makes us feel helpless within our own shell, but we also attack our own body since it's a vicious cycle of biting our own tail and Margaret shows this perspective not through agonizing shrieks of pain, but through rage and pure fury - the shrieks and the industrial soundscape present here doesn't feel tortured in the way it felt on "Bestial Burden", it's more vicious, more manic, the angles aren't as atmospheric, they're metallic, mechanic and destroying everything on its way - "Bestial Burden" saw us spitting blood, "Devour" puts us on the quest of shreding our own flesh and that's represented perfectly throughout the pure chaos present on these songs, having a gradative intensity, it walks us through several stages of self-destruction that becomes more and more unhinged as the tracks goes by - no sense of cohesion, of structure, of hope, just dense darkness and unstopabble destruction and that makes "Devour" not only as intense as its predecessor, but perhaps the project's more immediate record on how consuming it is.

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