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The third solo project created by Tennessee native Dillon Lyons, the young musician behind Glass Shrine and Kostnatění, Hornet Murmuration is his rawest and most unhinged one yet.
Self-recorded in three days, this demo incorporates a fair dose of punk in an already dangerous blend of black metal formulas, ranging from the obscure American Rhinocervs scene to the Slavic and French sounds. It’s chaotic but the production is quite clean for this genre, the riffs are vivid and easily audible and the fairly simple yet effective drumming gives a nice rhythm to the whole thing. The vocals are raspy and under a wall of noise under attack by a bunch of hornets. It does sound like hornets playing metal though, it's highly aggressive and it stings you but it's also organized in all its chaos.
Compared to black/punk stalwarts Raspberry Bulbs, who coincidentally just released their first album during the Trump administration on Relapse Records, no less, Hornet Murmuration are rooted strongly in modern, quasi un-unorthodoxed black metal. The Bulbs’ whole thing is to play punk with a raw black metal approach, it’s not the case of this new Lyons project. It’s not rooted in the olde eras of metal like most other metal/punk bands like Devil Master or Shitfucker like to explore, I’d say it foregoes influences and tries to be timeless. It often succeeds at it or maybe I just don’t know black metal enough to pinpoint the references...
It’s punkish in the way the riffs are written and the type of aggressiveness unravelled through the five short tracks of that demo release. While it’s uncomplicated metal, there’s still this underlying intellectualism laying around, mostly through the titles and the aesthetics of the project. It can also be found in the abrasive yet thoughtful songwriting which normally shouldn’t be as complex as it is. Affirmation of Antipathy is a strong debut demo that shows promises. It has this crisp, unrestrained take on black metal that’s oddly catchy.
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