These French maniacs (one of whom is Nicolas Senac, who has worked with ex-Whourkr member Igorrr on a couple of his solo records) finally deliver the follow-up to their absolutely crazed Rococo Holocaust debut from 2010, an album that took ADD-afflicted genre-hopping extremism into an even more whiplash-inducing direction. On their latest album, Pryapisme further assault the listener with their schizoid Naked City / Mr. Bungle inspired blasts of (mostly) instrumental metallic genre-fuckery and bizarre Dadaist grindcore. And black metal figures pretty heavily into all of this chaos, as well. Like some alternate world version of Mr. Bungle where the band was even more infatuated with the sounds of frostbitten European black metal and 8-bit style chiptune music than, say, porno soundtracks, Pryapisme are way proficient at writing and performing this sort of extreme, spastically arranged genre-hopping prog / grind / pop / electronica than most bands I've heard trying to channel that Naked City vibe. These guys are fantastic musicians, for one thing. There are some serious chops at work on this disc, and Pryapisme deliver these crazed songs with a combination of top-tier musicianship and Dadaist songwriting that somehow makes all of this insanity sound fairly seamless.

With all the weirdness going on, the rapid-fire stop-on-a-dime shifts from carnivalesque techno to creepy prog-metal workouts to maniacal saxophone-n'-Theremin laced jazz-thrash, the one common thread that runs throughout Hyperblast Super Collider is the band's propensity towards crushing technical grindcore and majestic black metal guitar parts. The band wildly weaves that blasting heaviness and those sweeping blackened riffs in and out of a dizzying stew of Goblin-esque prog and intricate drum n' bass sequences, dark orchestral maneuvers and 70's cop-flick disco, xylophones and gamelan-like melodies, wobbling speaker-shredding dubstep, jazz-fusion wankery, soundtracky strings: it's all fair game, chopped up and fed into Pryapisme's psychotic musical cuisinart. Evil sideshow keyboards are interwoven with clarinets and billowing fogbanks of vintage Moog synth, mutant video game soundtrack music bleeds into Eastern European folk melodies that emerge out of volleys of virtuosic guitar shred, weird digitized funk intersects with killer Carl Stalling-style orchestrations, while robotic vocoder vocals chirp over folky flute melodies and strange, oneiric dubstep dirges. One of the standout tracks on the disc is "Boudin Blanc Et Blanc Boudin", which resembles some unholy fusion of the Super Mario Brothers soundtrack and Meshuggah's angular math-metal chug. The execution for all of this stuff is pretty amazing, the musicianship top notch, the sensory assault over-the-top as the band breathlessly blasts through their endless stylistic hairpin turns. And at the end, we get Pryapisme transforming Modest Mussorgsky's classic "Night On Bald Mountain" into a bizarro mash-up of 8-bit doom metal, throbbing disco delirium, Stevie Wonder-style funk, smooth saxophone jazz and beyond, becoming an insane quasi-medley that also starts to spit out brief chunks of Guns N Roses and Stevie Wonder songs.

Definitely something to check out if your into all things Web Of Mimicry related, a surrealist blotter-fueled trip into virtuosic blackened prog-collage.