Spanish duo Wrong (singer / drummer Phlegethon, also known from e.g. Wormed, The Ytriple Corporation, Unsane Crisis, Human Mincer, Banished From Inferno etc., and string-master DP, who’s involved with The Ytriple Corporation, Neverdie (ex) or Heavy Popeye) return with their sophomore album, one year after the sublime debut Memories Of Sorrow. I was enormously pleased by that debut album, released via Aphelion Productions; check out the review posted on January 7th 2014.
When a first album is a bull’s eye hitter, the second one isn’t necessarily as impressive. However, in Wrong’s case there’s nothing wrong with this sophomore full length release. Pessimistic Outcomes (which, by the way, lasts for forty six minutes; the five songs clock in between seven and twelve minutes) once again offers a same-minded approach as it did with the debut, and in that review I wrote that both members had ‘the intention to bring a mutually-shared vision of post-apocalyptic gloom and ambitious chaos’. Well, there is nothing more to say right now, I think, because this album continues the very same malignant path. For the better part, this album is very comparable to the debut, but I think this one is (much) more violent in its final result. This has to do with the decreased depressive, quasi-suicidal basics, which have been replaced, if you want to, by more technically-executed structures. Of course those funereal, atmospheric, depressive elements are still of high importance to characterise or define this duo’s lullabies, and it gets strengthened once more by a production so dry and roughly-edged… Only a masochist’s ear drums can’t get enough of it. He, here we are!... No, seriously, in comparison to that grandiose debut, not that much did drastically change, and those who adored that former album will be satisfyingly pleased, evidently (count me in!).
And now, to end with, a bold list of comparisons; what to think about considering this album as a mixture of elements from (early) Shining, Blut Aus Nord, Craft, Throne Of Katharsis, Enthroned and Moon? Doesn’t that sound marvellous? Well, believe me if I say that I do not exaggerate!