Cynthoni's LAMENTING MALICE is a dense, exhausting blast of digital rage. It pulls together drum and bass, breakcore, gabber, harsh noise, and ambient into something that feels less like an album and more like a system failure. The track titles tell you exactly what you are in for: Enshittification, Nihilism Extremist, Dead Doom Scrolls, It Is 0 Seconds To Midnight. This is music for when the newsfeed has melted your brain and you want the music to match.
Cynthoni has been active since 2024, and this is their full-length debut. The label situation is not specified, but the sound fits somewhere between the digital hardcore lineage of Atari Teenage Riot and the hyper-compressed internet breakcore of artists like Goreshit or Sewerslvt. The one credited feature is Ciri delivering dialogue on Imminent Eradication, which breaks the noise wall for a second before it slams back shut.
It is not an easy listen. The tempo changes are violent, the gabber kicks hit like a slammed door, and the ambient passages are brief pockets of air before the next collapse. If you want something that sounds like the inside of a crashed hard drive, this is it. If you want a chill liquid drum and bass mix, look elsewhere. The CD and vinyl pressings suggest someone thinks this noise deserves a physical home, which is either brave or insane.
