OUT NOW! Rich God: Unmade (Somewherecold Records, 2024)
Rich God is a project composed by droneroom (Blake Edward Conley) and The Corrupting Sea (Jason T. Lamoreaux). Recorded over the course of a year or more, the album was slow to come but, in the end, the mayhem that resulted is a brilliant combination of droneroom’s and The Corrupting Sea’s sounds. Part guitar eruptions, part industrial, and part explosively experimental, Rich God’s debut album, Unmade, is a seven track, well thought out tour de force. Distorted rapture and falling basslines open the album with a concussive blast and the ride just keeps on building.
In places, the percussion becomes minimal, floating along rolls of fuzz. Piano, phantasms, and the edged convulsions point toward a dystopian world that has been Unmade by Rich God. Destruction, deconstruction, rebuilding, and deconstructing again happens throughout the album, as melodies appear in spite of the grit and grime of floating static and destructively powerful drums.
Rich God: Unmade is out now on very limited CD (30 copies) and digital downloads.