When I first listened to this I thought it was just some Satan worshippers who got their hands on a tape recorder. After going through the whole album I’m still not sure whether or not I’m wrong. It is a bizarre recording which jumps all over the place, from half-formed freak outs to just random improvised guitar plucking and noise. Sometimes you hear just the most random pieces of dialogue imaginable, such as “Geraldo: last seen wearing a double breasted strap on penis” in the middle of the second track.
This veers between being purely goofy to spacey jamming. Guitars are used but in unconventional, barely recognizable ways. Instead of working at melodies they work more as a form of percussion. Nothing seems to ever progress to anywhere. A few times during the album you’re subjected to absolutely brutal sudden jolts, particularly the third track which erupts into pure harsh noise at the 7:30 mark before returning back to the participants’ randomly recorded conversations.
Everything on here is subject to dramatic changes at GodversusSatan’s whim. Occasionally something verging on music shows up, such as a beat kept for over ten seconds but such events are rare. Mostly you experience an aural universe constantly in a state of flux, kind of like how God is always fighting Satan or something like that.
“GodversusSatan” could have fallen into becoming insufferably pretentious. Thanks to their good, surreal humor, it ends up being oddly enjoyable, nearly otherworldly at times. It is worth checking out here for free.
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