"Solus Patior" was reviewed by Crucial Blast. Check out what they had to say about it and then go ahead and order it from their site!Â
"Got hooked on this band through their debut cassette on Primal Vomit, but that was just a glimmer of the weirdness found on this full length disc. While most of the stuff that you'll hear on Primal Vomit tends towards raw blackened punk and blazing low-fi black metal filth, NRIII stood out like a sore thumb with it's pulsating midnight electronics and bizarre industrial creep-factor. I loved that tape, but on Solus Patior, this Florida-based band sounds even more unique as they blend together elements of power electronics, black noise, IDM and Scorn-esque rhythms.
On the twelve minute opener " Delirious", the disc begins with the sound of rainfall, the hiss of droplets crashing to earth, but then a huge blown-out synth comes in, joined by these disgusting snarling goblinoid vocals, wheezing and cackling over the rumbling synth-riff that keeps repeating itself over and over, sounding for a moment like a strange black-noise version of Theologian. Chaotic computer noises, random beeps and bloops come cascading down over this hypnotic blackened synthesizer melody, and those weird, demonic screeches continue to be vomited underneath the crackling electronics, until it all disappears down a burbling, bleeping black hole of electronic slop.
As the album goes on, we're treated to strange electronic soundscapes filled with minimal tones and abstract rhythmic clicks, bizarre vocal sounds and those omnipresent goblin shrieks joining with creepy percussive sounds drenched in bucket loads of psychedelic delay, and blasts of crude 8-bit granular distortion. A lot of low-fi junk-noise and cosmic synth fuckery shows up throughout the tracks, sometimes appearing as a fucked-up industrial dirge that leads into a brutal, heavily distorted Godflesh-esque breakbeat, or becoming dark ambient soundscapes rattled with the sounds of abused sheet-metal.
There's also passages of weird ambient electronica where looped drumbeats gallop around in circles beneath eerie Theremin-like tones, but then build into a furious torrent of tribal drums and incendiary noise. And then comes the blasting violence of "Capitalism", only two minutes long but it's total compressed savagery, a mesmerizing synthetic tremolo riff cycling over the wall of hiss and blown out blastbeats pushed into supersonic velocities, like a Nekrasov song run through a wall of shoegazer guitar.
"Occupation" is another stand-out mindfuck as it launches into a cacophony of broken drum n' bass skittering around at top speed, bleating free-jazz saxophone splattered across the electronic chaos, while a variety of bestial voices and sputtering noises erupt in the background. This tips over into the extreme distorted doom of "Suffering", a massively blown-out industrial dirge plowing through clouds of toxic gas and flocks of bat-winged devils.
NRIII totally defies categorization, which is fine with me. It definitely has a huge malevolent streak, and fans of the weirder fringes of blackened industrial will especially want to check this out. At times, it's sort of like hearing a black metal vocalist fronting a Consumer Electronics set being recorded over a choppy landline. Highly recommended. "
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