Imperative Imperceptible Impulse [Full Dynamic Range DR11], by AD NAUSEAM

Imperative Imperceptible Impulse [Full Dynamic Range DR11] by AD NAUSEAM, released 12 February 2021 1. Sub Specie Aeternitatis 2. Inexorably Ousted Sente 3. Coincidentia Oppositorum 4. Imperative Imperceptible Impulse 5. Horror Vacui 6. Human Interface To No God With their sophomore album Imperative Imperceptible Impulse, Ad Nauseam took a step forward in terms of composition, musical structures and sound. Music is not intended as a mere sequence of riffs that sound well one after the other but is now a naturally ordered structure where almost every musical event refers to the past and/or predicts the future, generating very layered and complex patterns dominated by polyphony and polyrhythms and where each instrument has its role and is essential in the whole. The music represents a merging of many different styles, the most prominent being extreme death/black metal, avantgarde, jazz, post-core, doom/sludge and ambient. The composition process of Imperative Imperceptible Impulse has been heavily influenced by 20th century classical composers like Stravinsky, Šostakóvič, Xenakis, Scelsi, Penderecki and Ligeti, to name a few. Both the concepts of harmony and melody have been put into discussion to get a music where harmony is obtained by means of disharmony and melody by dissonances. To push this method even further, a unique tuning system has been conceived, to allow a new harmonic vocabulary and to eradicate the players from the comfort zone of the usual melodic patterns every guitar/bass player is used to. The quartet is known to adopt a DIY approach in its most authentic meaning. To be able to keep every single step of the recording process under control and meet the band's high expectations, not only all Ad Nauseam records are self-produced, but each band member also contributes researching, designing and building most of the equipment used for the recordings (drums parts, cabinets, bass/guitar/studio related electronics) and collecting mainly vintage, odd and uncommon gears. Ad Nauseam takes a step back from the synthetic, flat and fake sound of modern production trends, going in the opposite direction, again adopting the same principles that are used to record classical music: less is more. An extreme effort has been put into finding a way to record the most natural, dynamic and tridimensional sound possible. For this reason, instead of focusing on the mixing and post-production phase, an insane amount of attention has been paid to studying how to capture the best sound since the very beginning. The maniacal assembly and calibration of the audio chain allowed to nearly eliminate the use of equalizers and dynamic compressors. Saying it with Steve Albini: "I want to hear the sound of the instrument, not the sound of the processor".