INSTAR by Denis Conoscente

For fans of Roland Kayn, Vangas, Caroline, noise music, and the dark twists and turns of medieval fairy tales, INSTAR by Denis Conoscente inventories our subconscious in search for that dark spirit which haunted every premodern culture. Though said spirit commonly manifests through characters and plot points in ancient verbal literature, Conoscente gives this entity a voice through means entirely separate from the written word, drawing out its essence in a much more abstract form. Vocal growls sit atop a mountain of macabre field recordings and digital noise, all met with the most discordant applications of traditional instrumentation to welcome us into this ritualistic horror which resonates with something deep within our hearts. We may have stopped respecting death, but all the same horrors of old still reach out to take us today, leading to a complete spiritual meltdown as we today interact with the meaningless cruelty of the material world. Within us, the dark spirit laughs, reminding us of its presence in increasingly incomprehensible, animalistic, and cathartic ways until we’re ripped limb from limb with spiritual dissonance.