Splatter Deluxe

This kind of brutal technical grind/death metal is difficult to appreciate. The only album of this style I liked a lot is the one made by the old Suffocation, but here that lesson in violence has been brought to another level, a higher one. This band is truly technical with a bunch of intricate riffs with the pure brutal death metal impact, and they create a monolithic album.

Another thing I appreciated a lot is the length: the songs are never too long and so you can taste in a perfect way the brutality mixed with lots of technical parts, especially in the rhythmic riffs. The vocals are maybe the hardest thing to appreciate because they are very guttural and low tuned. They are more like in Disgorge direction but the music is far better in my opinion.

On this CD we can find always songs that feature a perfect songwriting with lots of tempos changes with sudden speed starts. The blast beats parts are not chaotic at all and the group is really violent…it’s like a panzer at full speed. There’s one song that is a bit different from the other ones and it’s exactly the title track: it contains mid paced, groovy and rotten tempos during all the length without being boring but absolutely devastating and morbid. The bass player is a really good musician with the technical, pounding bass lines always in the first place.

Furthermore the guitars are restless in destroying and deforming each single note. There are some splatter movies intros too to give a more gore touch to this bestial atmosphere. Sometimes, they remind me very early Dying Fetus too, before they had the clearer production. Well, at the end this is a very good piece of technical brutal death metal and it’s recommended to anyone who search fore gore, violence and excellent songs.

This album destroys.To me it has the power of a runuway locomotive. The first song on the album, 'The Freezer's Monster' is a really good example of the band's approach, heavy and brutal, with heavy slower parts offset with fast monstrous, pounding faster grooves. The only place I think they could improve is that sometimes their slow parts last a little too long, but they always end up kicking it in gear and kicking my head around like a soccer ball. The title track is #3 and it is one of those great heavy grooves that seem to just pick me up like a tornado and slam me back when the music stops. Overall this album is not for lovers of speed, but the sheer brutality every song makes this album one of my all time favorite slam-fests.