There is a particular kind of anger that does not explode once and disappear. It repeats. It circles. It digs deeper with every breath. Sunswarm’s debut album Those Who Do Not Build Must Burn (July 22nd) captures that feeling by turning repetition into pressure.
Carrying the feeling of the dark sky before a violent storm, “Erasure” establishes the existence of tension before the first drop of rain arrives. The combination of harsh vocals, blast beats, and distorted guitars creates something that feels alive and restless. It’s almost like an angry Japanese hornet trapped inside a confined space with the guitars not only creating a buzzing and swarming sound, they seem to even mimic the idea behind the band’s name.
Throughout the album, Sunswarm feels like they are building around a heartbeat that cannot be escaped. The rhythms are repetitive, obsessive, and almost hypnotic. They create the sensation of trying to outrun something that is already inside the body. The conflict does not come from constant escalation but from the inability to break away from the cycle.
In, “Inside the Torn Apart”, the band understands that repetition can become its own form of violence. The song is where the anger feels almost overwhelming. It moves between moments of clarity and absolute fury, as though a thought briefly breaks through before being swallowed by wrath again. The vocals aren’t simply there for aggression. They sound like the release of something that has been held in too long.
“Sour///” is where the industrial influence becomes impossible to ignore. There is a meeting point between the mechanical aggression of Nine Inch Nails and Ministry and Sunswarm’s own heavier instincts. The groove feels sharper, the anger feels more focused, and the track carries a sense of someone finally directing their frustration toward a specific target rather than simply drowning in it.
That same intensity is what makes Those Who Do Not Build Must Burn an interesting but demanding listen. The album works best when experienced as one continuous piece rather than a collection of individual songs. Its atmosphere and repetition create a unified experience, but the trade-off is that certain tracks begin to lose their individual identity. “Rended” and “With Your Beautiful Mind You Deserve Much Better Than This” can feel less like separate moments and more like sections of the same overwhelming emotional current.
That is not a flaw. Sunswarm are not creating music designed for casual background listening. This is an album built around immersion. One where the boundaries between tracks become less important than the feeling created across the entire record. The experience is closer to being caught inside a storm system than walking through a series of separate rooms.
By creating a record that feels less like listening to aggression and more like being trapped inside its rhythm, Those Who Do Not Build Must Burn understands that anger is something m
