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captures the schizo-panoramic vibe of the more ruthlessly deranged members of the "Progressive Metal" fraternity (Fear of God, Mind Over Four, Anacrusis, Thought Industry)
unrelentingly inhospitable funeral-riot grindcore. twee smart-ass memesters need not apply.
somewhere between Johou era Discordance Axis and Torture Garden era Naked City.
this music is the true face of New York. "what do you mean by that? elaborate. explain." no.
i feel good about this. be better than we were.
being on the receiving end of a thumbtack colonoscopy while using a mud-shark as a fleshlight.
i'm going to lose a lot of you on this one, but fuck it; a pretty little weirdo in Jushin Thunder Liger shoulder pads who out-Pattons Mike Patton and plays Io Shari out to the ring will never not find occupancy in my headspace.
i'm pretty much in "whatever" mode about the PE genre at this current stage, but something about this project just checks all my boxes. i'd hesitate to use the term "nostalgia", but it feels closer to the first wave of American PE (Deathpile, Slogun, Bloodyminded) and insanely vicious Italian projects than whatever is being sperged out by iron-deficient hipsters.
it might be uncouth of me to mention this release, as i'm thanked on it and i've been in regular friendly contact with MZ for quite a few years... but also no one cares and/or reads blogs anymore, so whatever; i'd be all about this shit regardless. cold, rhythmic, picturesque, menacing... everything you could want out of an industrial record.
early contender for my top metal album of the year. impeccable all around. a must for those of us who remain dying of thirst for more groups in the gooey vein of Cattlepress, Succumb, Sepulcher, Reveal.
honorable mentions
AFTERBIRTH - Four Dimensional Flesh, BESTIAL PIGLORD - Cosmicism and Neuselore , BLACK CURSE - Endless Wound, CRYPTUAL - The Tombs of Misery, ENCOSTO - s/t , EYE FLYS - Tub of Lard , FORM HUNTER - s/t, FOTOCRIME - South of Heaven, GNAW - Barking Orders, GNAWED - Subterranean Rites, HAAPOJA - Mullan Keskelta , KHOST - Buried Steel, , MANY BLESSINGS - Emanation Body , NYREDOLK - Indebrændt, OIL SPILL - Ash Lands , oVo - Miasma, RASPBERRY BULBS - Before the Age of Nothing, REEKING AURA - Beneath the Canopy of Compost, RIKI - S/T, ROTTEN MONARCH - Winds Over Ash, THIN - Dawn, T.O.M.B. - Thin the Veil , ULCERATE - Stare Into Death And Be Still, VILE HORRENDOUS AERIAL BOMBARDMENT - Sovereignty in Rubble , WAKE - Devouring Ruin
