Underground metal grew in part because it was unselfconscious. Its bands expressed notions both idiosyncratic and subconscious, so it was evocative at a level below the rationalizing mind. Mekigah attempt to resurrect that observational weirdness with a Godflesh, post-metal, and doom metal hybrid.
The bass leads each song, prowling heavily over mechanical drums with a bit more swing than Godflesh used, while post-rock single-note reverb-heavy rhythm leads ring out at a low pace, building harmony. Vocals rasp in the background more as a sonic texture than discernible language.
A seemingly arythmic accompaniment of keyboard sounds and feedback noise frames the dominant instruments in layers, muddying the clearer digital piano sounds that deliver final themes after layered cycles collide and wear down.
Songs build in the duration of different overlapping loops with frequent variations on themes except for bass, creating an enduring tension of ambiguity, at which point the internal conflict plays out and exhausts itself, dropping into a final theme in echoing keyboards.
Tags: Ambient, Doom Metal, Industrial, mekigah, post-metal