I've begun writing this review a few times now, and every time I do so I get about two sentences in, stare at the page for a while, and then I have to start again. Is this because Gross Prophet's music is difficult? Maybe. It might also be because the music is unlike a lot of other things I've heard and it doesn't even attempt to press the buttons that music usually tries to push. I don't think you're meant to actually enjoy listening to it, I think you're supposed to let it pummel you into submission, and it's definitely equipped with enough hard hitting beats to achieve that.

So, to put it in simple terms, Gross Prophet's music is a mixture of glitch, breakcore, electronica, video game music, industrial music, and Mike Patton-style craziness, played at an incredibly fast pace and seemingly without any underlying structure or logic. It is chaos. The closest mainstream touchstones that I can come to would be Venetian Snares, Einóma or Mr. Bungle, although without the constant cycling between genres (Grossprophet stays fairly firmly in the electronic mould, with only a couple of samples and no natural musical instruments that I can hear), and a much higher density of notes per second.

It's not going to be for everyone. I can't really imagine myself throwing this on to listen to casually, for example. But it's pretty impressive just how many sounds have been thrown into these seven tracks, and how many various glitches, riffs, and themes are packed into each and every track. Lesser bands could probably pull a whole album out of the ideas contained on just one of these tracks. It might not be about to go to number one on the pop charts, but I can't deny that this is one of the more interesting new releases that I've heard lately.