“One of the hallmarks of guitarist Brandon Seabrook’s style is his unflinching willingness to be true to himself. If that means creating a wall of cacophonous noise while searching for a certain note, phrase, or rhythm—so be it. His music can be cavernous and unsettlingly sparse and quiet one moment and violently abrasive, noisy, and barbaric the next.” - Premiere Guitar

“…the fiercely dextrous New York musician has launched a number of bands combining serious chops with manic intensity and a left-field compositional vision: the prog-punk power trio Seabrook Power Plant, in which the leader can often be heard shredding on banjo; pulverizing art-metal group Needle Driver; and the deeply peculiar Die Trommel Fatale, which suggests Mike Patton’s Fantômas band filtered through modernist classical and noise.” -Rolling Stone Magazine

“If you know Brandon Seabrook, you probably know the role he plays as a human special effect, on guitar or banjo, in all manner of experimental settings. But it’s when he’s left to his own devices that Seabrook goes the most berserk…” -WBGO

This is music that agitates and quakes, like the ground is shifting beneath a melody’s feet. That alone is a riveting quality. But at times, this effect is accompanied by a hypnotic undercurrent, providing a center of gravity to music that moves in many directions at once. There’s nothing normal about this recording from Brandon Seabrook… and yet, there are interludes that unfold as logically as clouds crossing the sky.” -Bandcamp

“His performances aspire to a terrifying frenzy in which notes spill forth at an astonishing pace, oddball time signatures driving jagged meters over piledriver drumming. It's hilarious. Then it's shocking.” -Wall St. Journal

“Seabrook's greatest strength is that his creations don't come off as accidents. This is deeply considered stuff, though it's not overwrought and it doesn't require graduate school to get. That's uncommon for something so experimental.” -Brooklyn Vegan

“Even amongst types of music that are often referred to as “unclassifiable,” there occasionally comes a release that is a literal representation of that term. In sum, if you take punk-metal guitar and vocals with unconventional and aggressive percussion, all pulled off by conservatory-trained musicians also capable of free-improv blow outs, you still probably don’t quite get Die Trommel Fatale, but that’s not a bad place to start. An impressively weird release.” - Avant Music News

“Two years ago, guitarist Brandon Seabrook released an amazing album, Exultations, with multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore playing the one-stringed diddley-bow and Gerald Cleaver on drums. It was skronky and explosively energetic, with a fucking ton of low end. Cooper-Moore may have only had one string to work with, but he’s a goddamn virtuoso, and was able to play postpunk/dub bass lines on it, as Cleaver’s drums snapped and rumbled. Normally, the world of improvised music being what it is, a record like Exultations would have been a glorious one-off, but now it’s an actual band, and their follow-up release, In The Swarm, is even better than the debut.” -Stereogum