dj 6666 - death breathing

I consider myself a pretty huge Alec Empire fan.  Destroyer was my introduction to breakcore, and also largely to electronic music in general.  From there I took in every album of his I could find, leaning more towards his Digital Hardcore period, which I absolutely devoured.  For years, I thought Live at CBGB's with Merzbow was by far the heaviest album he ever made.  But that was until I discovered Death Breathing.

Live at CBGB's is arguably the closest Alec ever came to recreating the sounds on this album, but even that doesn't come particularly close to matching it.  This is Destroyer played even faster, amplified well into the read, laced with feedback and screeching noise way more dynamic than what Merzbow was doing on CBGB's.

This is Alec at his most nihilistic, most extreme, and most disturbing.  Long gone are the childish calls for anarchy from Atari Teenage Riot--DJ 6666 exists in a world beyond hope, and the result is an endless stream of death and suffering that amounts to perhaps the heaviest album ever made.