Black Breath 17. Maggots in Your Coffin 18. It speaks the insanity of a schizophrenic world, full of paranoid and morbid fears hidden beneath a visual skin of solidity. Patterns for these songs vary from two-riff pileups to songs which are built of shifting riffs braided together in a structure of rhythmic consistency to great lulling effect, even in the midst of violence. The neutral and even humorous nature of the violence and decay confronts mortality with a poison it cannot resist.
True nihilism is achieved in playful and violent music.
Like textures made coherent by a narrative voice repeating phrases, the music of Repulsion speaks its unifying principles through the truth of rage against frustration and mortal fear in all of us. Here it is an almost joyful mocking of human insanity, a monsterplay that is both gleeful and profoundly political at the same time, deliverance and comedy in brutal morbidity.