Hyatari - The Light Carriers

Codebreaker, 2005

1. Sheet of Flames

2. Freeform for the Disenfranchised

3. The Light Carriers

4. Fourth Realm

5. 14,000,000,000 Years Ago

6. Harvesting Sod

7. Collapse

Hyatari - whose name is slang for peyote - are a way-above average drone band out of West Virginia, USA. Eschewing the aimless wandering of many drone bands, these guys have a purpose and a goal with their Godflesh-influenced industrial droning: to rattle the bones of the universe until they turn to dust. Just look at those titles! "Sheet of Flames", "14,000,000,000 Years Ago", "Collapse" - you don't get more bloody epic than that!

The first edition of the album was self-released and comprised a single tracks sans titles, but the wider release on Codebreaker has been cut into seven songs; each track marker is in an entirely logical place, but nonetheless the album surges onward without pause in a monolithic 45 minute slab that will smash your face in before pounding the Earth to a bloody pulp.

I'd like to draw attention to the use of dynamics on this album which is, in my opinion, simply brilliant: there are moments when the bass suddenly drops out and leaves a most beautiful feeling of freefalling, and the barely-audible samples buried deep between mountainous guitars really fuck with your mind.

Recommended if:
You've ever wanted to know what the death of the universe would be like but were too scared to go there.

Similar:

Nobody. Seriously.

Homepage: www.hyatari.com (not working as of 04/06/2009)
Myspace: www.myspace.com/hyatari
Last.fm: www.last.fm/music/Hyatari