Review Summary: Forget all the noise we hear in our everyday lives and give this a try instead.
Polluted Noise Industries is but one of many DIY projects by Hana Crevette focused around harsh, metallic, and noise adjacent sub-genres. If the three arrows and anti-facist badge didn't tip you off, the album presents a politically charged theme to its sound, taking cues from an anti-establishment outlook, leaving no liberties in being palatable to the normal layperson. It took effort to even find the band as is. You won't find it on streaming sites and just googling the band name brings up generalized searches on the effects of noise pollution which becomes a sort of meta commentary within the music, although I can't speak to the deliberateness of it.
Blood Chasm Contagious Roots kicks off the album with reverberating sine waves bouncing off an empty chasm of unintelligible words and a barren soundscape echoes. The vocals absolutely kill in this project adding a layer of dissonance to the harsh instrumentation beginning in track 2, Veins Rhizomes, which is one of my favorites as the grind and metal elements come into play in the album. The middle section of the album plays with harsh vocals, bellowing chugs, and harsh riffs up until track 6, "Creeping Thorned Vines", which brings more of a doom noise sound back into the equation as monotone vocals echo against the rest of the album until the final track brings the album full circle. Sounds of human anguish and moans get suppressed under mechanical engine sounds. A tortuous sound that overpowers and overwhelms all other sounds. It's a terrific industrial drone track and probably my favorite of the album.
The fact that it is an early project that was abandoned to pursue other sounds comes through in the very rough recordings which sound essentially like demos. The band's other album, Art is Dead, features more of an emphasis on the noise and electronic aspects compared to this one. You might prefer listening to that instead, if you want a more well-rounded sounding album.
Asymmetry Chastic Flowers and Assimilated Trees does cover a lot of ground in just 15 minutes, blending and contorting a cacophony of extreme metal genres and manages to keep it fun and heavy. It's about as punk as you can get making your own music just because you can even if its not the most robust or focused effort and I think that's one of the most admirable aspects when someone chooses to make music.
