I would place Zu in the crossroad between the purest free forms of jazz, sludge, post-metalcore and dark matter fusion. Something that would inbreed the ghost of Naked City and other John Zorn extravaganzas, Neurosis with their experimental heavy-weighted distortion, Guapo with their dark dissonance and Giant Squid with their jazzy sludge/post-metal.

In Cuniferous (I do not know their back catalogue) Zu is a musical tornado with whimsical dark forces working in their behalf. The musical journey takes the listener to a windowless labyrinth of distorted black walls, where the light is diffuse and sickly yellow and the walls seem to breathe in agony. Like a symphony of sickened souls crying out in one of the most violent circles of Dante’s inferno.

Dark poetic review apart, the music is structurally organized to the detail, yet always leaving the door opened to chaos to invade. This invasion can appear in Sax form or in hellish vocalizations provided by genious Mike Patton who guests in Soulympics. The music is heavy and compact, creating a true wall of sound by the close interaction and synergy that drums and bass are able to accomplish. Power and resolution, darkness and experimentation, jazz and metal – all ingredients are confined in a truly explosive set of defying tracks…to my delight.