Deep Cavity - Cathedral of Tears
California chewing and spewing deathrock is what moves the old scribe: it's the kind of music that makes him feel at home. Here we are in Riverside, eighty kilometres from Los Angeles. Not enough distance not to feel the fascination of that black spot that saw the birth in the late 70s of many bands willing to visit the dark atrium of the soul. The quartet produce a trio of rough songs that, starting from a Post-Punk structure, arrives very quickly in the damp cave of Deathrock to devise a way to turn tears into a solid, scratchy blanket: a way to irritate the skin with a strong guerrilla warfare, to exercise, “happily”, all the characteristics of that musical genre that has eternal life guaranteed in those parts. Danny Aranda, Alejandro Aranda, Jose Argueta and Daniel Avila are the bearers of a dying verb with the voice of the former reminding us of the Supreme Priest and only recognised God of this desecrating planet. The core of the band is the acid stings of Daniel's guitar and the contortions of Jose's bass. Alejandro Aranda drumming is pagan poetry, sensual and devastating, as his drums are the embrace on which listening bodies can throw themselves into the basement of the inner cave. Esotericism becomes cruel love and this Ep will be the refuge where deluding oneself to see the light will be a bitter smile, but the only joy granted…
Alex Dematteis
Musicshockworld
Salford
21st January 2023
https://deepcavity.bandcamp.com/album/cathedral-of-tears
