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KOOLOOZ - Blood Mountain EP Review BY Mark Jenkins. Sweet industrial purgatory.
★★★★☆
Melbourne's KOOLOOZ don't just make music—they manufacture anxiety. Their debut EP Blood Mountain is a four-track descent into industrial purgatory that feels like being trapped inside a malfunctioning surveillance state while your sanity slowly bleeds out through the speakers.
This Naarm two-piece has weaponised their minimal setup into maximum brutality. What emerges is a relentless barrage of sample-heavy carnage that sits somewhere between early Nine Inch Nails' factory-floor nightmares and the caustic electronics of Author & Punisher. But KOOLOOZ aren't interested in nostalgia—this is Y2K paranoia for the surveillance capitalism era, where every beat hits like a jackboot and every synth line cuts like broken glass.
The title track Blood Mountain opens with ritualistic precision—a hypnotic pulse that immediately establishes KOOLOOZ's gothic-industrial manifesto. There's something deeply seductive about the mechanical throb, channelling the body-music brutality of Nitzer Ebb while maintaining that distinctly Australian post-punk sneer in the vocals. It's a danceable dystopia, setting the stage for everything that follows.
Fowl Akt follows with suffocating paranoia, capturing the psychosis of surveillance capitalism through theatrical vocals that echo the Birthday Party's most unhinged moments. The track builds on gothic-industrial foundations, all hypnotic rhythms and spectral atmospherics that recall Dead Can Dance's darker explorations.
Banshee shifts the narrative focus to feminine rage incarnate—a vengeful spirit rising from digital death. The track's femme-fatale energy is palpable, all seductive low-end throb before erupting into cathartic violence. KOOLOOZ understand the power of dynamics here, letting the tension simmer before unleashing hell.
By the time Noise Floor arrives, any semblance of humanity has been stripped away. This is pure mechanised horror—autonomy dissolved into static, as the band puts it...SEE LINK IN BIO FOR THE FULL STORY
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KOOLOOZ – Blood Mountain
Naarm industrial two-piece KOOLOOZ erupt with Blood Mountain — four tracks of sample-heavy, big-beat industrial blood meridian.
This debut EP follows an unnamed antagonist beyond pain and paranoia, where rage becomes power.
Blood Mountain is a brutal, cathartic initiation — relentless, fractured, and unflinching.
‘Fowl Akt- captures a breakdown under the suffocating pressure of capitalist intrusion — psychosis laced with surveillance.
‘Banshee’ channels a femme-fatale risen from death, driven by vengeance.
‘Noise Floor’ depicts a world stripped of humanity, where autonomy dissolves into static.
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