Keith Brewer's work particularly Taint, has always struck me as a place of detailed graphic sexual violence that holds no limits or boundaries. I remember Ted Bundy gave interview once before he was about to he fryed, where he tried to blame pornography for his growing perverted psychosis, he kept saying the urge for more extreme material became a point that got out of hand and knew no limits. I think of "Taint" as that place of grotesque limitless perversion that Bundy was talking about, where the lines of perversion and violence are blurred or blended together in such a manner. Those are some of the important aspects that I've noticed in his work and also a great obsession for ear piercing and punishing feedback!
Mania was a great side step to Taint. Mania didn't deviate completely away from the said aesthetics of Taint, but introduced a much more claustrophobic and manic version of what to me seems like a person going full blown Mr. Hyde and never returning back to ones former self, but losing their mind alone and in doing so in true isolation of their own withering mind. He's now introduced a greater emphasis on harsh noise with loads of junk metal abuse to give it a different texture than previously in Taint, but there is a much greater sense of "psychopathy" aesthetically growing within the isolation of this sound. There has often been times where it seemed like Keith was just breathing closely into the mic and it feels like some maniac is hovering over you and breathing onto your neck in the dark and it feels very claustrophobic again, like you're in an attic with no light and this evil entity/spirit is in there with you, just there making a presence over you and toying with your psyche. He also brought great titles and aesthetics when it comes to mass murder/mass shootings I've noticed and don't know if others have noticed this as well, but feels like a build up of all that loneliness, isolation, self hate and just sitting in the dark, maybe bleeding too and sitting your own feces feeling miserable about your own miserable existence and then it all coming to a head with an explosion of unrestraint random violence! That's kind of the feel I gather from his work personally. It's feels like self humiliation, depression and eventually leading to this explosive violent murderous behavior towards others. His junk metal abuse and random screams, yells...outbursts of audio violence has always been done explicitly well to really habor such genuine emotion. Sadly I don't think his brilliant blue print will ever be quite duplicated the same, if ever again. True noise genius...R.I.P.
