Opposites, as the saying goes, attract. And that is certainly the case with Watch Me Die Inside, the new musical vehicle for Cyprus-based music-maker Aleph. The three tracks that make up the latest EP, Infinity Fall I, are indeed forged of opposites – the brutality of the heaviest of sounds blending with the delicacy of an almost neo-classical sound – in an oh so attractive manner.
Opening with the title track, we are treated to cascades of gentle piano and impassioned vocals, digital beats and rising sonics, finally exploding in the heaviest of black metal riffs and demonic vocals, before order is restored. But it is this explosive moment that defines the music’s opposite sonic shore, a place that the music is constantly making a break for before being reined in by softer tides.
“Weak Tension” continues to balance such extremes, again, an almost balladic and understated undertone battling with razor-wire guitars, and pummelling beats, a battle between melody and muscle, poise and power; hints of nu-metal mixed with more extreme forces all being reworked for a new age.
This short, sharp, and shockingly impressive musical triptych is rounded off with “Something Is Wrong,” the song that perhaps more than any found here really runs between the two extreme points of the already defined sonic spectrum. By the time the song hits the halfway point, it is quickly and brutally consumed by screaming, demonic lyrics and raging sonic storms, dark anthemics and doom-laden sounds, hell of a way to play things out.
As is often the way with such music, the individual musical building blocks are instantly recognisable, from deft keystrokes to sonic tsunamis, but it is how everything is arranged, the play between collision and complement, chaos and harmony, that makes for the incredible overall musical architecture.
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