Review by Lawrence Stillman on October 12, 2024.

Despite being shorter, this was even more terrifying than Terminal Aggressor 2 for me, it tells a lot when the first half of TA2 really startled me.

This single is closer to something from Khanate in terms of how unsettling it is, but looking at the cover photo, it makes a lot of sense given that it is the Jonestown cult massacre, but it is still very unsettling when combined with Jim Jones's speech in the second half of the song.

Instrumentally, it is just drone-y guitars and power electronics that create the creepy sound effects that drone doom has been known for. Again, this is something very different for DIS as a whole, even when compared to NV, where Mories of Gnaw Their Tongues collaborated with DIS on a very nightmarish split that occasionally still gives me auditory nightmares. But what we have heard here might be even more nightmarish; it perfectly captured the terror and impending feeling of doom on the day when everyone drinks the Kool-aid and commits mass suicide (assuming you have the foresight). It is a massacre where the death count is over 900 and the cannibal killed less than 20.

Despite that, I still prefer this less compared to their full lengths; drone doom is not my thing, after all. I would come back and give this a higher rating if it was used as the intro track for their next full-length since a drone intro for a death/black/doom album will really shake up what people think drone can do, making a terrifying album even more frightening than it should.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10