Tritonic: Demiurge

Tritonic – Fretless Hardcore Sludge That Cuts Deep

by Jack Rush

Tritonic are back and ready to unleash Bend the Arc!, their wilfully abrasive and fiercely original second album. With the single “Demiurge,” they offer a glimpse into a sound that’s as uncompromising as it is uncanny—a track that feels more like a ritual than a song.

From their hand-converted fretless guitars to their refusal to use direct inputs in the studio, Tritonic is a band committed to the gesamtkunstwerk—the total work of art. They’ve built their world from the ground up: raw, dissonant, philosophical, and defiantly unmarketable. And somehow, it’s all the more compelling for it.

“Demiurge” is a sonic invocation. It slithers through sludge, doom, and hardcore, only to implode into shards of musique concrete, free jazz, indie melancholy, and nu-metal ghost-echoes. Those fretless guitars—an act of both destruction and creation—warp riffs into something unstable and infinite. Tritonic aren't chasing perfection; they’re chasing the unknowable.

Where their debut Port of Spain balanced pummeling hardcore with tender indie textures, and Algae Bloom introduced glitchy electronics and sly self-awareness, Demiurge obliterates any lingering boundaries. It’s austere and wild, cerebral and guttural—a song that demands as much as it delivers.

The video? Less music promo, more cryptic transmission. Slow, abstract, and ritualistic, it echoes the song’s central tension: if the moral arc of the universe bends toward justice, who bends it? Tritonic don’t answer. They just hold up a mirror and let the feedback howl.

This is heavy music reimagined—not just loud, but alive with purpose and unpredictability. Tritonic doesn’t just reject the rulebook—they never read it. And that’s exactly why “Demiurge” hits so hard. It’s aggressive, yes, but there’s also a raw humanity here that lingers. It's a rare, soul-stirring combination.

I’m hooked. This is one of the most original bands I’ve heard in a long time, and if “Demiurge” is any indication, Bend the Arc! might just be a landmark release. Tritonic aren’t playing around, and I wouldn’t be shocked if they cracked the Billboard charts purely by sheer force of vision.

If you’re into music that challenges, confronts, and consumes, get on this now. Follow Tritonic, stream “Demiurge,” and brace yourself. Something big is coming.

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