Well, I think I can safely say that this is the longest album name I’ve seen all year. Also, this could be one of the most bizarre and dark/twisted records to come out in 2025. So let’s talk about it!
This is a 14-track experience unlike no other, featuring the likes of
-THE HERETIC
-DRAYYARD on production and
-SmokeInTheEye
-PERSON
-Black Mugen on the feature verses, and to say that this thing is ‘deep’ would be a grave understatement. This thing has layers and waves that go deeper than the Mariana Trench and act more mysterious than the Bermuda Triangle. What we have here is a sonic mind restructuring event that is tasked with changing how we as listeners perceive and interpret music itself.
A lot of these ‘songs’ can’t really be called that as they act as more psycho analytic interludes and cognitive dissonance. From short tracks to the even shorter various less than 30 seconds or 60-second increments that feel like jolts to the nervous system and to test your tolerance for various signals and waves to see how you
react.
For me personally, I’ve spent most of my life since a teenager exploring the absolute darkest depths of music, so for me, this is (although very extreme in comparison to anything else going right now) nothing I couldn’t handle, and I couldn’t help but applaud the efforts by Deity V for trying to construct an atmosphere so devoid and sick that it reframes the mind. Although the protect is littered with rhymes and verses either by V or the mentioned features, this doesn’t really feel like a ‘hip-hop album’ but more a grand overture of destructive proportions that is designed solely for the purpose of shattering boundaries, refreshing the mind, and starting anew.
To all involved, a great thanks for trying something truly original. We see that word thrown around too frequently, and some not deserving, and what’s interesting is anyone who steps too far out of the box gets judged or looked at a
certain way because of fulfilling the criteria of ‘original’.
Either way, these guys did that, and this will
definitely be remembered as being ‘original’.
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