From the moment you press play on this album, your ass is
handed to you, over and over again.
There is not time to prepare, no time to catch your breath, before the
onslaught begins. It is dissonant at
times, it is heavy and brutal always, and it is magnificent.
Grindcore is definitely not something I gravitate to, so I
wasn’t sure how I would react to this release.
There are enough touches of death mixed in here, though, that I was just
floored by this music. This album has been
a long time in the works and is most assuredly worth the wait.
The music is violent sounding. I can totally imagine putting this on after a
particularly shitty day and just letting it all go by the time you’ve listened
through all 12 tracks. Or if you need to
go to the gym and just push yourself to exhaustion, put this on your music
player of choice and you’ll be wiped in about 30 minutes. Seriously, this sounds like what you’d hear
and feel if you stood in the middle of a head on collision between to semis
barreling down the freeway. I really
wanted to just punch my cat, for no good reason other than I had just listened
to this.
Most of the tracks are in the nice, sweet spot in length of
between 2 and 3 minutes, perfect for this style of metal. The album is sequenced so there is not even a
moment of silence between tracks. Again,
unrelenting and unforgiving. The music
itself takes small pauses, such as during “Compelled By Mediocrity”. But it doesn’t happen often. Album closer “Resultados” clocks in at over 6
minutes, so obviously the grind slows down a little, but it is still just
absolutely brutal.
- ODIN
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