While they couldn’t have picked a better track (OK, maybe ‘Small Talk‘ but beggars and choosers and all that), the video leaves a lot to be desired despite how much it matches the spastic and frantic grind the pumps through your speakers. It’s not so much a music video as an assault on the eyeballs of subtitles and live footage, however I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the exact route they were going for. In short, check it out — if only for the music.
- DL
I’m a simple man. I think that’s obvious to everyone. I know what I likes and if there’s been any two things that have defined 2011 for me it’d have to be all the great grindcore releases (Rotten Sound, Gridlink, Wormrot, Brutal Truth etc) and Devin Townsend. So what better way to round off the year than with a little from column A and a little from column B?
Bent Sea is the latest project from the dynamic duo of Devin on bass and Dirk Verbeuren (of Scarve and Soilwork amongst others), alongside Aborted vocalist Sven de Caluwe. Whilst it’s probably common knowledge to a lot of you, I wasn’t aware! You can listen to the title track from their new EP Noistalgia here and even peruse their less than stellar website. Although, in 2011 how many bands out there still have a website!?
I likes it; completely inoffensive grind that brings to mind a really well produced Napalm Death. Obviously, you wouldn’t be able to tell it was Devin without being told but both de Caluwe and Verbeuren pull off great performances that are reminiscent of their respective projects. And at only $5.50 for 11 tracks from their webstore, it’s hard to complain. Just add Noistalgia to the list of great grind records in 2011.
- DL
For fear of getting bogged down in nothing but news posts about album streams, I’m just going to compile them as I see them, and content volume be damned.
First up is Rwake‘s stunning Rest, that I know JR has been enjoying the tits off it since August, and I’ve just started to delve into it as well. Catch the full stream over on their Bandcamp here and then sling big piles of money their way.
One of our brand new guys Tentaclesworth also reviewed the new Brutal Truth yesterday, and here is Hails and Horns’ stream of it.
Unfortunately he didn’t like it a whole bunch, but when you write for this website you lose all semblance of reasonable thought and professionalism apparently, so what the hell do we know!
Anydiddle, both are out next Tuesday 27th, and both on Relapse Records.
- CG
Brutal Truth01. Malice
02. Simple Math
03. End Time
04. Fuck Cancer
05. Celebratory Gunfire
06. Small Talk
07. .58 Caliber
08. Swift And Violent (Swift Version)
09. Crawling Man Blues
10. Lottery
11. Warm Embrace Of Poverty
12. Old World Order
13. Butcher
14. Killing Planet Earth
15. Gut-Check
16. All Work And No Play
17. Addicted
18. Sweet Dreams
19. Echo Friendly Discharge
20. Twenty Bag
21. Trash
22. Drink Up
23. Control Room
Grindcore is not a genre that is meant to be explored. As much as innovation and creativity is appreciated, taking the genre of grindcore and deviating into the places Brutal Truth go in their 6th album End Time is a step in the wrong direction. They do no favors for grind this time around – save for the excellent drumming (as always). They’re no strangers to grind and are considered a staple in the genre by many, but after hearing End Time, I feel like I’ve just listened to the most frantic of Brutal Truth’s work 22 times over. This isn’t necessarily a good thing.
The time for rapture has come and gone and it looks like no one but Macho Man Randy Savage got beamed up to party in Jesus’s tree house in the sky. So are you people ready for months and months of endless suffering and torture? I sure as hell am, especially if there’s a new Brutal Truth album coming out.
The godfathers of grind will release their new album End Time on the 27th of September, which is one hell of a wait, but in the meantime you can check out the title track on the band’s facebook page. I’m honestly not sure whether you have to ‘like’ the page to listen to it as I was already a fan but trust me it’s worth it, sounds like they’re on route to bettering Evolution Through Revolution at least.
- DL
While there’s been no official statement or anything, I’ve been stalking Brutal Truth‘s facebook and twitter pages for a while now and it’s fairly obvious that they will be releasing another hefty slab of grind this year said to be ‘the strangest music we’ve done‘. But I still can’t find any allusion to this anywhere else so best file this under WILD SPECULATION! Here are the details I harvested:
All sounds very promising and if by strange they mean Sounds Of The Animal Kingdom style strange then I’m sold.
-DL
Clocking in at just under 14 minutes, the new album by Southern California hardcore band NAILS is nothing short of awesome. Every one of the album’s ten tracks will pummel into you unrelentingly, as good hardcore and grindcore should. The Six Feet Under Records website describes NAILS as sounding like “Entombed covering Napalm Death and Drop Dead“, which is damn near spot on. Interesting enough, the album was recorded at Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou’s Godcity recording studio, with Kurt producing. That should already tell you that this album will be good.
The album opens to immediate chaos and aural violence with the 32 second “Conform”. The term “powerviolence” becomes perfectly clear. Before you even realize that song’s over, you’re under hell-fire with more pummeling blasts, maniacal screams, and grinding and screeching guitars that continue throughout the next three tracks, nonstop. This album doesn’t seem to want to let up.
Amidst the pissed off chants of “Suffering Soul”, NAILS step back from the chaos just a bit and play some hardcore riffs with some slower groove. Nails continues the pace into the title track “Unsilent Death”.
NAILS knows how to make 14 minutes feel like a long time, and they make good use of their time. The songs blend together seamlessly at times, giving the illusion of lasting much longer. Speaking on the album’s structure, I’d believe it if this album was written as one piece of music broken up into tracks.
The album is still pummeling away in fury like a jackhammer. A short guitar solo is thrown out in “No Servant”. Now it’s back to business as usual with “Scapegoat”, which leads into the album’s longest song and closing track “Depths”. The guitars are the main voice here. Layered screeches, noise, and feedback take over a lot of the song, creating the sonic equivalent of disaster. A considerably slower and heavy as fuck riff with proper use of pinch harmonics lead the track to close with a mood if impending doom, ending the album in guitar feedback. What a perfect closer.
NAILS – Unsilent Death is a great grind album. Although short, it does exactly what it’s supposed to. If you’re a fan of Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Napalm Death, and Brutal Truth, you need to check out NAILS right away. You can stream the tracks “Your God” and “Suffering Soul” here, as well as buying the album on preorder.
- JR
01. BARONESS – “Isak”
02. GENGHIS TRON – “I Wont Come Back Alive”
03. TOMBS – “Gossamer”
04. COALESCE – “Wild Ox Moan”
05. THE END – “The Never Ever Aftermath”
06. BURIED INSIDE – “V”
07. ZOMBI – “Orion”
08. BURNT BY THE SUN – “Inner Station”
09. THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN – “Dead As History”
10. DON CABALLERO – “Lord Krepelka”
11. MASTODON – “Mother Puncher”
12. KINGDOM OF SORROW – “Free The Fallen”
13. PIG DESTROYER – “Loathsome”
14. GRAVES OF VALOR – “Bridles Of Incitatus”
15. NECROPHAGIST – “Seven”
16. OBSCURA – “Incarnated”
17. TOXIC HOLOCAUST – “Wild Dogs”
18. HIGH ON FIRE – “Turk”
19. ALABAMA THUNDERPUSSY – “Void Of Harmony”
20. PENTAGRAM – “Forever My Queen”
21. AMORPHIS – “Better Unborn”
22. BRUTAL TRUTH – “Evolution Through Revolution”
23. ORIGIN – “The Aftermath”
So much win on one album, it’s unbelievable. Relapse released the newest “Contamination“ label sampler exclusively as an iTunes digital album. “Contamination 2009“ includes all 23 tracks above for just $5.99, including an exclusive advance download of the new Coalesce track “Wild Ox Moan“ from their upcoming album “Ox”.
Baroness, Dillinger, Genghis Tron, Pig Destroyer, Necrophagist, High on Fire, Mastodon… *head spins*
Relapse has one of the best rosters of any metal label out there. Check this out.
- JR
This is probably slightly old, but the offer still stands. Relapse Records is having a sale in honor of Maryland Deathfest 2009 online. All performing Relapse titles are 20% off. That includes Misery Index, Atheist, Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer, Cephalic Carnage, and more.
All performing non-Relapse titles are 15% off. This includes bands such as General Surgery, Napalm Death, Cattle Decapitation, and Bolt Thrower.
If you actually buy music, you need to hit this offer up.
-JR
