first time on here i just found a level i hadnt seen before (i used to keep up with ILL stuff but not as much recently) and instantly got what it was trying to do. i usually try to let levels sit for a bit but this one's pretty obviously something special. was rly excited to see the new top 1 ILLs of the 2.2+ era coz it has a lot of fucked up stuff & im glad i got my wish of something genuinely challenging to look at, coz that fits the vibe of the list very well. i don't think i need to say much about the level itself. just watch it

also, this is in the small handful of levels that are in fact not red/hellish enough. just find it disappointing because brutal death metal* is the most red genre of music out there and the fact that this level has anything that isn't red, black, and occasionally orange, should be considered a crime. it's also that it just looks really unfinished. maybe it is? if it ends up finished and i like how it looks ill bump to an 8

(*a footnote that i think more people should know that brutal death metal specifically is the *really* really fast and heavy stuff like this. though there is a sizable following for bdm, it's often viewed as a more 'every album in it sounds kinda the same' subgenre of metal. 'normal' death metal is not typically as heavy, though still heavier than most music, and especially the older stuff can be like a third of the tempo of this. typical bdm is like the jontron mariachi gag, this one i'd probably also consider technical death metal (aka techdeath) cuz there's a lot more emphasis on changing up the rhythms constantly over pure blastbeats)