Review: “Commit A Madness” by Angerland
“So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there’s always madness. Madness is the emergency exit…”
Angerland swings back and hits us with a moody soundscape and a slow-burning psychedelic visual torture in their latest release, “Commit A Madness.” With tension that waits to snap at every turn and twist and a kind of moody atmosphere that breathes under your skin, “Commit A Madness” travels to haunted past and cursed memories. There are shadows that live in this track, grabbing you from the space between notes, echoing with resonance that drags you in.
The wicked soundscape paints an ever-changing picture of pain, fire, and places you shouldn’t be in.
Even though “Commit A Madness” sounds heavy and chaotic on the surface, it carries an emotional undercurrent that feels more like a whisper than a scream. Like longing, melancholy, and restraint that’s always one step away from snapping. It makes their music feel like a tug of war in the best way. Sonically, the track is more layered and nuanced than just another loud punk track that lifts the roof — but Angerland did channel the chaos and volume of an underground punk show into its studio recording.
What makes “Commit A Madness” work is that it doesn’t blast you with everything all at once. It invites you in and keeps you there. Like a trip that keeps heading deeper and deeper down, whether you like it or not. Horrified but thrilled at the same time. It creates a mental push and pull in its forward moment. At times, it really feels like the music is messing with your nervous system. Like being injected with a dose of something you have no idea of, there’s a tingling feeling in your arms and a racing heartbeat in your mouth.
The effects feel immediate and fated.
“Commit A Madness” leaves the kind of psychic mark that lingers in your soul. It doesn’t seem to want to return you to your world, but rather leaves an afterthought, where you’re convinced that part of you forever remained in that world.
For a track about being involuntarily trapped on an unpleasant train to haunting past, the kind of spiraling into madness is palpable and terrifying.
On a late September day, Punk Head sat down with punk rock band Angerland for a round of truth or dare. Click here to see them spilling the secrets.
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