Sightless Pit debuted in 2020 with Grave of a Dog, a harsh, blistering record that deconstructed elements of metal, industrial, techno, and even opera. Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota) has since left the project, leaving Lee Buford (the Body) and Dylan Walker (Full of Hell) as the core members. On second album Lockstep Bloodwar, the duo recruit a bevy of guests, adding much more of a hip-hop influence to the project's sound, but still keeping it easier to categorize by descriptors like suffocating, bleak, and cathartic than ...
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Sightless Pit debuted in 2020 with Grave of a Dog, a harsh, blistering record that deconstructed elements of metal, industrial, techno, and even opera. Kristin Hayter (Lingua Ignota) has since left the project, leaving Lee Buford (the Body) and Dylan Walker (Full of Hell) as the core members. On second album Lockstep Bloodwar, the duo recruit a bevy of guests, adding much more of a hip-hop influence to the project's sound, but still keeping it easier to categorize by descriptors like suffocating, bleak, and cathartic than by any musical genres. Citing dub as a primary influence on the album, the pair build tracks with crawling tempos and cavernous echo, but add thick blankets of distortion and chest-rattling bass. Buford's trebly shrieking and Walker's terrifying growls are accompanied by a multitude of other voices, mixing choral and ethereal singing styles on opener "Resin on a Knife," featuring Midwife. "Calcified Glass" is a bracing standout, with distorted vocals and drums from the Boredoms' YoshimiO leading into a brief but spirited verse by Three 6 Mafia legend Gangsta Boo, who sadly died weeks before the album's release. Another horrorcore pioneer, Frukwan of Gravediggaz, is featured on "Low Orbit," rapping grisly, blood-soaked lyrics over a blown-out clubby beat. Elizabeth Colour Wheel's Lane Shi Otayonii delivers some of the record's most exhilarating screams and soulful wails on "Flower to Tomb," while claire rousay's Auto-Tuned poetry on "False Epiphany" provides a moment of hushed intimacy. Foie Gras' repeated hook "The world is a sightless pit" during the head-swirling closer "Futilities" somehow feels like one of the album's more grounded, assuring moments. Much more stylistically varied and ambitious than Sightless Pit's debut, Lockstep Bloodwar is also more focused and successful. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi
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