Release Date: August 22nd 2025. Record Label: Marfa Lights Records. Formats: DD
Your Mother’s Disgusting Window - Tracklisting
1.Untitled
2.Spree Killing
3.Grim Reality 06:21
4.Kill Me 07:24
5.Pig World
6.Obliterate
Members
Darlene
Review
Your Mother’s Disgusting Window debut self-titled album opens with a soundclip from the classic 1990’s film HEAT directed by the legendary Michael Mann which sets the tone for the whole album. As the scene in question is perhaps one of the nastiest and sinister clips from that amazing film. Your Mother’s Disgusting Window is primarily the work of Darlene Aaron who has been part of the Australian underground musical scene for the best part of two decades.
This record is a violent record through and through with Your Mother’s Disgusting Window fusing Drone, Psych, Punk, Doom, Black Metal, Noise, Sludge, Stoner and Industrial. With a despairing level of ELECTRONICA vibes which can be quite unsettling to fully listen through at times. However, the record does have its fair share of sublime grooves, riffs and extended instrumental passages.
The band is influenced by the likes of SUNN 0))), Corrupted, Grief, EYEHATEGOD, SLEEP, BLACK SABBATH, THE MELVINS. SWANS and BORIS. If that amazing line-up of bands intrigues you then be prepared for an Avant-Garde style of nightmarish sounds, brash vocals and heavy industrialized moments.
The opening song of Untitled is the speech from the classic film of HEAT before the album truly begins with the terrifying Spree Killing. A song so nasty and vicious with Your Mother’s Disgusting Window fully selling their nightmarish creative attitude that feels like Nine Inch Nails, Ministry and SUNN 0))) vying for control of your immortal soul. The sounds are nihilistic, progressive and quite long but one that leaves a great impression of how daring the record actually can be.
Third track Grim Reality adds a subversive Sludge Metal and gloomy Post Punk identity to the record that allows Darlene to fully sell the “outsider” vibe that the record contains. I don’t know why but listening to this track reminded me of classic films by David Cronenberg and the TETSUO films. The tone is once again grimy and beautifully fucked up at the same time, The slow paced mechanics allows the desolate melodies and twisted guitars to build a destructive level of DRONE to force people into actual submission. Perhaps one of the most violent offerings of Blackened Sludge Metal and Noise Rock I’ve heard in quite some time.
Fourth track Kill Me does at least try to aim for a more straightforward riff-centric style of melody but still with twisted amounts of primal Drone and Black Metal. The electronica based beats and industrial glitches add a surreal sense of survival where carnage and chaos reigns supreme. There’s a twisted aura of AMPLIFIER FEEDBACK and LOW & SLOW atmospherics struggling to break out at times but Your Mother’s Disgusting Window always keeps the twisted Drone Metal / Industrial mechanics firmly in control.
Fifth track Pig World follows the same creative path of Kill Me with a less abrasive and violent approach though everything is still catastrophically demonic at heart. This is one of the standout tracks on the record with Darlene laying down twisted melodies of the highest order.
The final track of Obliterate is a lengthy twenty minute plus number that sees Your Mother’s Disgusting Window just go all out for a final epic assault on the senses. Darlene is joined by Black Metal/Blackwave legend Sin Nanna (Striborg, Sunn o)))) on this number who provides ruthless vocals to this masterclass of SONIC based terrorism that will leave you having nightmares for a very long time to come.
Your Mother’s Disgusting Window is perhaps the most violent and twisted record I’ve heard this year. It has a fearless attitude and violent creative energy you just don’t come across much these days. This isn’t a record you can listen to over and over again. This did take me a few weeks to write this review as it left me a shivering wreck which I’m not afraid to admit to. However, this is an astonishing record to devour especially if you’re a dedicated follower of the EXTREME METAL scene.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you!!!!
Words by Steve Howe
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