CHON if it was played on TDEP levels of chaos with black metal tempo and a djenty sound base. With its constant changes of riffage and rhythm signature literally every second, with instruments coming in and out at all times, and with incessant (but sometimes cool) Rings of Saturn-esque ultrafast arpeggios, this sounds like your brain on triple caffeine. And in fact this is the main interest I see to the EP: I sure would like stuff like this to jam when working at 4am and absolutely needing to stay awake somehow. But musically, although the technicity is beyond belief, as ever with this type of stuff I struggle to connect and see a real appeal to the ultra shreddiness. This is not your basicest shred though. There are lots of synths, which I don't really like here as they give a Joy of Motion overelectronic feel, and very occasional piano or marimbaesque Tortoisey percussions which are really cool when they come in, e.g. in the beautiful intro to 4 before it turns to cringe. The riff at 2:40 is sorta cool. Apart from that the best bit was the third quarter of 2 which is quite good, and the rare calmer moments e.g. on 3. I guess the riff midtrack is headbangy and cool ,though very cliche in a AI-generated djent/Tesseract kind of way. My rating went down quickly with time, but thankfully this is quite short. 2.8
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