It's not like we're trying to decipher the lyrics anyway. It is much preferable when a death metal vocalist doesn't try to stand out too much. I always find the "slurping soda through a straw" vocals to be distracting. He rarely strays from the domain of low-end grunting, which is perfect for this style of music. Guest vocalist Ramon, repping the good old USA, performs his job admirably. You could have told me this was a live album and I would have believed you, if not for the lack of crowd noise. And the entire performance seems very organic, with slight musical imperfections popping up everywhere. Flashy fretboard fingerwork is second to bludgeoning riffs, which is how it should be.
What death metal band doesn't play crazy shit? There aren't many solos or other prominent technical passages. Wormed gained a lot of notoriety for doing the prog-brutal-death thing a decade ago, but Fast-Slow Demolition might have actually eclipsed Planisphaereum as king of that sub-sub-sub-(sub-sub-sub-sub)subgenre.ħ H.Target's instrumentalists are talented, and while they play some pretty crazy stuff, 7 H.Target can't really be considered a tech-death band. It's thirty-odd minutes of chaos, switching between wall-of-noise fast sections, sparely-composed slow sections and everything in between, and I love it. Pretty much every conceivable death metal riff is present in some form on this album, and seldom does the band go back to explore previous ideas. The best slam ever in recorded music history occurs at the 3:21 mark of "Hara-Kiri Torture Mechanism", and it would not hold that title if there had been three minutes of slams before it. I prefer this to the Cephalotripsy-esque "keep that pit going guys! we're playing another slam!" style which has a plurality of adherents. Groovy syncopated sections actually get more exposure than the quintessential "slam" riff, which is used sparingly and is often played in a syncopated style as well. To add injury to injury, the bass drum and bass guitar team up to punish your eardrums (and bowels) with lower-than-low rumblings. I would have preferred a more conventional snare sound, but the incessantly ringing tone during blast-beats is better than a flat "tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh tuh".
Penetrating through all the guitar-produced sludge is a snare drum with a drumhead made of sheet metal. Adjectives such as "cryptlike", "madness-inducing", and "fuckheavy" would be more appropriate. It is not "clean", or "polished", or "sleek" or any of those words that get used when a death metal band fucks up their production. There is just no other way to describe it. The production on this album is extremely heavy. After that compelling description, how could you not want to listen in? In the words of the band: "Techno Sexual Violence Russian Slamology". End result: one of the best brutal death albums of all time. What they've done here is take the "caveman slam" genre and added one part technicality, one part progressivity, one part grooviness, and one part weird Japanese samples. 7 H.Target is a newcomer to the scene, but they don't pussyfoot around. It all started with Abominable Putridity, but there are many other bands from the land of the czars which deliver the same flavor of brutal death metal. Delightful.Ĭheck out the super-heavy cover of Bodies below.Russia has gained a reputation as a hotbed of guttural slamming music. Portland noise label Imploding Sounds are releasing the record on February 14 – just in time for Valentine's Day, ainteresting bands providing the covers, including such joyful names as Smothered Bowels, Angelic Assblast and Dysmorphic Disfigurement. The Facebook page for the project describes the album as "a veritable nostalgia trip of re-animated gutturalized grooves and rhymes, and squealing, squelching, slamming fun." READ THIS: The 21 greatest nu-metal albums of all time Some of underground's most violent and downright disgusting bands, giving br00tal renditions of Mudvayne, Korn, American Heard Charge, Kittie, Limp Bizkit and more. Everybody loves throwing down to Bodies by Drowning Pool, don't they? There's nothing like a cathartic, communal 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOObut did you ever wish it was a little bit heavier?Įnter Russian slam-death band I Tore My Eyes Out, who have covered it for the upcoming brutal death metal/nu-metal covers album, Dead Bodies Everywhere: A Slam And Death Tribute To Nu-Metal.