Release Date July 24th, 2026
Format LP/CD/MC
Genre Post Metal
Origin Italy
Viscera/// has operated in the Italian underground for 26 years, shaping its music through post metal, industrial extremity, black metal, grindcore, noise, electronics and bleak atmosphere. "4. Assets For Psychedelic Warfare" arrives through Time To Kill Records, nine years after the band’s previous full length album. The extended writing period widened the band’s sonic range and retained its cold, nonconformist character. Michele Basso handles vocals, guitars and electronics, Gian Lorenzo Cantù plays bass, Federico De Bernardi Di Valserra plays drums, and Marcello Bellina appears on guitar for the album sessions. Riccardo Brembilla now holds the second guitar position in the current lineup. The production emphasizes layered dissonance, glacial riffing, sudden grindcore acceleration and a larger psychedelic presence.
Dark wave shades and melodic vocals deepen the melancholic character, and electronic details add an unstable, hallucinatory edge. Guitars and electronics frequently merge into an oppressive field, with drums maintaining definition beneath the surrounding distortion. The bass remains embedded low in the arrangement and adds physical depth as
part of the total mass. This production choice makes the album immersive and severe, although several layers sometimes compete for the same frequency space. The result links mechanical aggression with a colder, more spectral atmosphere, placing melancholy beside violence across the entire album. The album lives on friction. Mechanical riffs collide with psychedelic haze, blasts arrive without warning, and the melodic vocal sections create distance, offering no comfort.
The writing stays severe across the seven principal songs, with the digital edition adding an edited version of "Radiant." The album reaches its peak when rhythmic attack, electronics and dark atmosphere move together, forming a bleak pulse that lingers after playback. Several sections circle the same rhythmic ground longer than necessary, and the accumulated layering becomes congested when guitars, electronics and vocals meet at equal intensity. Immediate hooks remain secondary to texture, unease and gradual escalation, so the finer details require more than a casual pass. That approach gives the material character, although it also blurs the distinction between a few passages and weakens momentum near the album’s most crowded stretches.
"4. Assets For Psychedelic Warfare" is an ambitious return with genuine depth, firm tonal discipline and enough variation to justify its long construction period. The psychedelic and dark wave additions alter the emotional temperature of the music, serving a structural role beyond decoration. Its flaws come from excess, not lack of ideas. A tighter edit could have made the final result more severe and precise. As released, it remains gripping, unsettling and rewarding, with a few sections that dilute an otherwise powerful album. This is a demanding release with real substance, one that rewards attention despite its occasional tendency to overload the arrangement.
|7.8
Add comment
Comments