Neuromechanica (2018) - ByoNoiseGenerator

 

Neuromechanica, released in 2018, is an audacious, brain-scrambling assault that obliterates the barriers between brutal death metal, grindcore, noise, and experimental jazz. Hailing from Russia, ByoNoiseGenerator carved out a corner of extreme music that feels completely alien even to seasoned fans of technical death metal or cybergrind. Rather than relying on traditional structures or grooves, Neuromechanica plunges the listener into an overwhelming freefall of hyper-complex rhythms, abrasive textures, and moments of surreal, mechanical beauty.

This album is not just "fast" or "technical" in the usual metal sense — it's almost inhuman. It feels like the soundtrack to a malfunctioning industrial facility, where every machine spirals into oblivion, yet somehow operates on a terrifying internal logic. Neuromechanica is dense, chaotic, yet meticulously constructed, making it both suffocating and fascinating.

Tracklist:

1. 9.8m/sec² Endorphine Nose Dive

2. АШ-82 Low-Level Quick Fire Run

3. 4° Flutter Flux

4. 3/4 Cavity Hydroblow Tango

5. Ku259 Half-Life

6. 140dB Love Song

7. (С₂Н₅)₂O-Junkies' Neuro Overture

8. N.O.D. Creeping Trips

9. Permanent 100% Aerophobia

10. C₁₆H₂₅NO₂ Efficiency Ratio

The opener, 9.8m/sec² Endorphine Nose Dive, immediately sets the tone — the listener is thrust into a collapsing vortex of rapidfire blast beats, unpredictable guitar spasms, and skittering bass. The sheer intensity is almost paralyzing, but underneath the chaos there is a remarkable precision, like a perfectly calibrated machine operating at its breaking point.

АШ-82 Low-Level Quick Fire Run continues the attack with whiplash-inducing tempo shifts and dissonant shards of riffing. The programmed drums are so hyperactive they feel like they’re fracturing time itself. What keeps this from being pure noise is the uncanny sense of rhythm that peeks through, offering brief glimpses of coherence before dissolving again.

Tracks like 4° Flutter Flux and 3/4 Cavity Hydroblow Tango show off the band's more experimental side. Amidst the grinding chaos, there are moments where twisted jazz-like progressions surface — strange, broken melodies that feel completely alien yet somehow fitting. It's as if the album briefly remembers something organic before returning to complete mechanical decay.

Ku259 Half-Life and 140dB Love Song ramp up the brutality even further. The former feels like an accelerated descent into chaos, with riffs that mutate faster than the ear can follow. 140dB Love Song — a title that reads almost sarcastic — is one of the most ferocious moments on the album, a relentless barrage of technical destruction with fleeting glimpses of order buried deep within.

(С₂Н₅)₂O-Junkies' Neuro Overture and N.O.D. Creeping Trips are more groove-oriented — relatively speaking. They offer fragmented rhythms that nearly resemble grooves before collapsing into broken time signatures and spasmodic riffing. There’s a bizarre beauty in these tracks, a sense that even in total collapse, there’s a form of tortured musicality screaming to get out.

The final stretch, Permanent 100% Aerophobia and C₁₆H₂₅NO₂ Efficiency Ratio, push the chaos to its peak. These tracks feel like a violent final purge of all organic matter, leaving only corrupted digital signals in their wake. C₁₆H₂₅NO₂ Efficiency Ratio especially feels like a mechanical organism breaking apart at the cellular level, gasping out one last cybernetic death rattle.

Neuromechanica is not for the faint of heart. It’s a short but utterly exhausting experience — a dense 16-minute barrage that feels longer because of how packed it is with information, noise, and rhythm. Yet for fans of brutal death metal, grindcore, avant-garde jazz, and noise, it offers something deeply rewarding: a vision of extremity that feels genuinely futuristic.

This is the kind of album you return to when the clean, polished "technical death metal" scene feels too safe. It is raw, but not in a lo-fi way — raw in its emotional violence and structural unpredictability. It captures the sensation of modernity spiraling into madness better than almost any other extreme album of its kind.

For anyone who loves bands like Cephalic Carnage, Discordance Axis, Gridlink, or more experimental projects like Frontierer but wants an even more brutal, hyper-condensed experience, Neuromechanica is absolutely essential.