Buzz Sound: PUREST FORM

Photo by Kris Kirk

Artist: PUREST FORM, the trio of vocalist Story Beeson, guitarist and programmer Madison Woodward, and bassist Riley Joyner

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Buzz: Maybe there’s something to the energy being released into the universe when certain anniversary dates roll around. On this, the 30th birthday weekend of Nine Inch Nails’ damaged, mass industrial-alternative classic, The Downward Spiral, PUREST FORM’s self-titled debut EP has entered our existential plane from futuristic sound particles not dissimilar than what Trent Reznor created, and have spawned their own degree of masochism. The Los Angeles trio — whose membership already ripples throughout the scene in bands like Fury, Object of Affection, Choking on Ash, and Pocketknife — are using their varying background experiences in grindcore, metal, and electronic music to set fire to sound with the world as their accelerant. You don’t need to be dense to see how there’s plenty of it around as it is, and if the apocalypse is right around the corner, then PUREST FORM take full advantage of the optics of it in all its broken and self-destructive nature. Three songs. Seven minutes. There’s just enough substance here to ignite a dark techno thrash dance to rage to as humankind spirals down.

Sound: A collision between a hardcore pit and a rave inside in an abandoned industrial building doused in kerosene, and alit for the end times.

Recommended: “BROKE”, “OPTICS”, and “SELF DESTRUCTION” from their newly released self-titled debut EP

Directed by: Jeremy Stith

PUREST FORM’s PUREST FORM is available now.