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1st Listen 2 Oct 25
Reviewed 7 Oct 25
Modder – Destroying Ourselves for a Place in the Sun
Consouling Sounds/Lay Bare Recordings
Released 3 Oct 25
Destroying Ourselves for a Place in the Sun is the 3rd album by the innovative Belgian sludge band Modder. It is an interesting album, blending big riffs with unsubtle electronica, think Pendulum mixed with early Mastodon and you get the gist. They are also reminiscent of Karma to Burn, providing an album with no vocals, but with a great deal more heavy.
Modder have released an album that doesn’t need vocals. The differing textures and layers embedded within each of the 6 tracks on offers provides enough for you to draw upon. You will be mesmerised by the gargantuan singular riff in the midsection of ‘Mather’. You will be entranced by the fuck-you riffage of ‘Type-27’ – a particular favourite high-point of Destroying Ourselves…. .
But, more than that, you will hear the guitars sing to you replacing the vocals. ‘Mutant Body Double’ has the guitars soaring above a back riff. ‘In the Sun’
replaces the vocal with a riff that almost speaks to you. Who needs a vocalist?
They are redundant.
Modder have released one of the most interesting albums of the year. The electronica littered throughout the album is the only thing that really disengages me, but this is personal taste and its effects on me are so minimal, that it is churlish to loiter on them.
That said – I did write in my notes, ‘need to buy some white gloves and a whistle’.
Destroying Ourselves for a Place in the Sun is an album for you to lose yourself in. Embrace it, wallow in the huge riffs whilst you have a dance. Not many albums can do that for you.
The DevilsHorns 
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