There’s no point in doing a track premiere, when an album only contains two tracks, so, what the hell, here’s the whole damn thing. Callous Faulter is the solo project of Aussie J. Angus (ex-Greytomb, Paroxysmal Cavitation)—assisted by R. Stone (drums) and Tim Stoker (sax solo)—and this self-titled effort features “The Isolationist” and “Ocean View,” each clocking in at over 16 minutes running time. And what does Angus get up to in those quarter-hour creative bursts, you ask? A whole lot actually. At its heart, Callous Faulter is a cinematic, extreme metal landscape of harsh sounds ranging from grimy sludge to jackhammering, dissonant death metal with some post-metal languidity thrown in for relief. Like the album’s cover art, it’s gray, imposing and monolithic.
Callous Faulter was recorded, mixed and mastered by Tristan Barnes at Underland Recordings. It’s set for release on CD and digitally via Gutter Prince Cabal Records on June 1. Place your preorder here.
Angus described his latest effort as such:
“This Callous Faulter album was written across two separate periods of my life, dealing with loss and self discovery. like opposite faces of the same coin. ‘The Isolationist’ and ‘Ocean Views’ move with a shared language, each branching off in their respective paths of dissonance, and blackened sludge. I think we all deal with the human condition in our own weird human ways, mine just happens to be playing guitar and making extreme music. Making this music left me feeling profoundly whole and deeply alienated at the same time. It’s the strange paradox of the work: the more personal it becomes, the more it seems to reach outward, searching for connection across the void. My main goal with Callous Faulter is to explore certain aspects of different genres and be truly experimental If only one person finds something true in Callous Faulter, that’s enough.”
