Diploid's New Album, 'Everything Went Red' Is Fucking Insane

We all need a bit of crazy in our lives. And Diploid provide said craziness with their new LP.

The new record from Melbourne trio, Diploid, is a wild, psychologically destroying, experimental mixture of noise, hardcore, skramz, power-violence and more. It's this unhinged, chaotic, sonic hurricane of other bands like Merzbow, Slowly Building Weapons, and Full Of Hell, all the while continuing what this group did so effortlessly on 2015's '"Is God Up There?"'

This is a dark, ugly and blistering heavy record on all accounts; one that begins and ends with these eerie, slowed down audio samples taken from Truth, Lies and Sex Offenders (a follow up from Anna Salter's book, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders). Menacing opener 'Population Decline' and the album's messy AF closer 'Nocturnal' both feature these creepy interview samples taken from the first part of that utterly harrowing yet insightful documentary (see the 07:25 mark onwards), and it's all super affecting when placed within the maddening musical palette of Diploid.

Likewise, the second grisly and overly distorted track 'Birth' also sees a small excerpt taken from the 1968 NBC10 Expose, Suffer The Little Children: A Peek into the History of Eugenics and Child Abuse by the State - Pennsylvania Pennhurst. (Have A Nice Life fans reading this will also remember that that band did something very similar for their ghostly track, 'Cropsey'). These references to the vilest failures of our society's shameful history of child sexual abuse, while uncovering and freaky, only adds further to the darkened, violent nature of Diploid's intensive music.

Elsewhere, the record is perfectly propelled along by these short but seethingly vicious cuts, solid songs like 'I Will Strike You Down', 'Empty Void', 'Extinction', 'Chewing Pins', 'It's Not Safe' and 'Sand Beneath My Skin'. Despite each of these track's smaller noise/experimental idiosyncrasies, they're all drenched in gloom, feedback, tremolo picking, fast riffs, unrelenting blast beats, droning bass, harrowing shrieks and evil screams. It's heavy stuff and then some.

Also, there's a song here called 'Suffering Immense Pain Before Death' that's literally just loud distorted double bass triggers played under weightless cymbal washes and distorted screams of what sounds like genuine physical pain coming from their vocalists. I mean, Jesus fucking Christ, that might just sum up this record the very best I think!

You can enter Diploid's deep musical abyss below. This is insanity; both in tone and musicality.

Be sure to check out the band's upcoming live dates here. Buy 'Everything Went Red' here.