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| The Undivided Wholeness of All Things |
So, let's talk about the subgenre "Brutal Death Metal."
There was an epic twitter meltdown I caused a few months ago because I said that brutal death metal and technical death metal are basically the same thing.
By basically, I mean 88 to 93% the same and by epic meltdown I mean a polite disagreement between myself and one other gent.
So, if we're being completely honest and putting all of our card on the table, I don't really like Brutal Death Metal. To my ears, it typically sounds like down tuned grindcore with a whole lot less to say, because who knows what in the world they're saying anyway.
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| Annihilation (featuring in the middle, Ms. Not Appearing On This Record) |
Meet, Annihilation.
What we learned to day is that it is truly possible to make good music that's so heavy it would kill a medium sized llama is dropped from only one story above said medium sized llama.
It's also, apparently, within the realm of physics to create a brutal album that actually feels like an album of genuinely different songs rather than a single riff that's repeated for forty minutes.
What's even stranger than those two things, which most brutal death metal bands not named Annihilation cannot seem to figure out, is that this band doesn't sound like every single other brutal death metal band not named Annihilation.
My first thought is that Portugal's brutal darlings have employed some sort of witchcraft acquired by making deals with Spaniards who crossed the border during the inquisition.
I was wrong, it's a different sort of craft: song craft.
This album isn't a overly tuned down, monolithic slab played through 5150 amps on 10 being pushed by 909 OD pedals on 10...you know what we're getting at right?
It's a slab featuring heavy, intricate songs full of nooks and crannies to lose yourself in.
Release: 11/28/17
Genre: Brutal Death Metal (apparently)
Label: It's Nice To Eat You Records
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