
Negative Feedback Resistor
"Destruction Unit sacrificed their ears to make this album as loud of a statement as possible. Will you lend them yours?" For once, the grand statement in an album's liner notes is dead on the money -- this psychedelic assault squadron may begin 2015's Negative Feedback Resistor with two minutes of distant ambient sounds hovering over the horizon, but once "Disinfect" finally kicks in, this music sounds like the equivalent of being tossed headfirst into a deep pit filled with several dozen Marshall amps, all cranked to ten and bleeding feedback. Destruction Unit intend to use rock & roll as a weapon, and the blunt impact of Negative Feedback Resistor is towering -- even at a low volume, this album sounds crushingly loud and massive, with the guitars of Ryan Rousseau, J.S. Aurelius, and Nick Nappa joining together as one outsized obelisk of pure sound (reinforced by wailing banks of synthesizers), as Rustin Rousseau lets slip thundering basslines beneath it all and drummer Andrew Fl