It stands at one hour, fourteen minutes and seventeen seconds of pure
orchestrated madness. Delirium Cordia, the most recent release
from the noise/grind/free form/ avant guard group Fantomas hits hard...
harder than a hammer to the head.

Mixing chants, gibberish, sound effects, skat and noise this record is
probably one of the most underrated albums of the past year.
You listen to it and think “hey I could do that, thats not anything great”
and then you find yourself in a garage with some of your buddies
from high school and you turn out shit, unlike the team of Patton,
Lombardo, Osborne, and Dunn who will and can collectively blow your
ass six ways to sunday.

Now, you can listen to this and think that it is improvisational noise or
grind core but it isn’t. Its just orchestrated to make you think that.
The flow of the album seems to take you on one hell of a mind bending
ride and has subtle hints of a theme, that being a medical mishap.
There is also a unique quote on the back of the cd, relating the
composer to a surgeon.

Complex, hard to follow and even harder to understand Fantomas
has once again proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that originality
still exists in music and that the modern composer has much more to
work with than anyone could ever imagine. I have heard rumors of
another release within the next year or so and I cant wait to hear it
but for now this will have to do, now if I could only get my ears to
stop bleeding.

Reviewed by : Spencer