WAKE UP! A NEW DAWN IS WAITING FOR YOU.

Following the rather pointless debut EP of mindless emoviolence meets noisecore that only lasted over five minutes and never really developed into anything, the Finnish artist Zero and his solo project CRUSHING MY PALMS BETWEEN THE GLASS SHARDS YOU GAVE ME decided to get serious and focus on creating music that's actually interesting.

While only seemingly interested in short EPs, this second offering WAKE UP! A NEW DAWN IS WAITING FOR YOU is a single track release but just squeaks over the 18-minute mark. A remarkable improvement in every possible way CRUSHING dude decided to uses the post-rock paradigm as the underpinning of his strange mix of screamo, noisecore, electronica and atmospheric black metal.

For something categorized in the post-rock world, CRUSHING amazingly maintains that genre as the dominant one even though this an aggressive tune with screamo vocal bombast projected itself from a black metal guitar din. Like most post-rock there is a cyclical groove that is the underpinning throughout the entirety of this EP but CRUSHING is keen to decorate with all kinds of tone, timbres and dynamics.

The electronic intro builds into an aggressive frenzy but then a little pause allows the cyclical groove to usher in a new stylistic approach as the post-rock takes on the guise of a noisy psychedelic rock with black metal guitar slowly creeping back into the main framework. The bass is particularly active with cool grooves until finally blastbeat drumming and atmospheric cloud coverings offering a cooling approach to the buzzsaw black metal guitar.

Then once again all shifts into a beautiful piano roll with the same melodic groove of course until it becomes two piano parts totally unaccompanied by other sounds. An electronic scratching sound slowly creeps in and then everything changes again! This approach is continued through the entire track with the basic gist of lush mellow segments alternating with bone crushing heaviness. Zero proves to be an excellent guitarist, bassist and drummer.

The music is rather dramatic and towards the end builds and builds and builds a satisfying climactic ending that goes out with some wickedly cool electronic weirdness! All in all this is a brilliant little EP that doesn't get too complex but offers a nice easy ride with many layers of sound effects in synergy to create an excellent post-rock journey that takes on a whole album's worth of ideas and truncates them into an 18-minute bombshell.