There's a fine line between noise and art. On the one hand, it's easy to just plug some things into a distortion pedal and make noise. On the other, turning that noise into something more obviously crafted is something else. When do the blasts of micro drum loops become a song? When do the single note guitar beats form something coherent?
These are the lines that Maruosa walks. On the surface, he's just some beastman rolling around on stage and shouting into a microphone while these washes of lethal sonic daggers shoot out of the speakers. Look a little deeper (if your ears can handle it) and you'll realize that this is all very carefully planned. Sure, the songs sound like Alec Empire and Venetian Snares run at fast forward, but it is all pre-planned and very finely crafted. While it's impossible to tell if there are any real words being formed in this storm, Maruosa's message is pretty clear: there is no message. Everything is destroyed and razed to the ground, pummeled into a fine dust through rage and sound. The end result is a bit like the Maldoror project from Merzbow and Mike Patton, only much less abstract.
Maruosa also provides the voice for the Deathstorm project, with Bong-Ra of the Netherlands being the second half of that equation. With Deathstorm, the songs become even more highly edited, with the occasional syth texture added to the otherwise exclusively drum-based pallet. If Maruosa's solo work seems a little too stark, then Deathstorm is the slightly more "deep" alternative, though no less challenging.
Maruosa has made a bit of a name for himself overseas, playing gigs all over the world, through all of Europe, Australia and the US. With a host of new albums planned, the world might want to keep an eye open and watch their backs for more Maruosa live gigs.
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Albums:
Exercise and Hell 2007
Deathstorm - "We Are Deathstorm"
Live
Hell-O Everyone!!! (Live)
