Pryapisme – Hyperblast Super Collider
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Sometime last year I posted an article called The Bad, The Worse, and the Downright Awful in which I shared some of the most eye rolling press releases I had read from bands. Recently I received a press release from a French progressive band called Pryapisme. This is what their bio said:
“Pryapisme is a band who doesn’t know how to write biography since 2000.
After studying ninja and a reconversion into the cons-expertise of technical equipment for a massive group of automotive, Pryapisme offers an avantgardist rereading of the works of Tolstoy, but with real pieces of pizza inside.”
Folks, now THIS is how you write a bio. Seriously. Ok, so you don’t have to be THIS off the wall but the fact that the band doesn’t take themselves so seriously and consider themselves “masterminds” or “the leaders of their genre” really grabbed my attention and actually had me wanting to give them a listen. The humor totally clicked with me and what I heard was actually pretty fucking funny. I can’t say that Pryapisme is a band that I would sit down and listen to when I want to chill out but the band really does offer something unique and fun.
After listening to Pryapisme’s upcoming release Hyperblast Super Collider I realized that Pryapisme is probably one of the first bands I’ve ever heard where I said, “Hey, these guys remind me of Powerglove. To some like my buddy Shawn, this is enough to send him running for the door but I actually found myself loving it, hating it, and loving it some more. Think of the progressive metal elements crossed with a heavier, digital 8-bit kind of sound that literally sounds like a video game soundtrack. If you could capture an audio recording of one of Keith Emmerson’s acid trips while listening to Death, I’m sure it would sound exactly like Pryapisme. Each song is a sonic brain fuck that will either blow your mind and entrigue you or it have you scrambling for the door to go throw on a Thelonious Monk record for ear/brain bleach.
At times, like during the song “Random Jean Vigo” would find myself reaching for the stop button only to be stopped dead in my tracks by a really amazing change in the music and a progression that took me completely out of the song and into another realm. It almost sounded like the audio soundtrack for space travel through a worm hole. Whatever it is, I found myself loving it, hating it, intrigued, and repulsed all at the same time. Pryapisme is a band that has made something really unique that will literally get inside of your head and have you struggling with yourself as to whether to put the breaks on or to just let this machine take over and take you to wherever it is they want to take you. Consider it a musical challenge!
To give Pryapisme’s previous album a listen, go to : http://pryapisme.bandcamp.com
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