From Blood to Dust

This new Mind Snare album marks a new member in the line up, a new drummer, Sergio “Pavinator” Pavinato. This new drummer is the most technical, powerful and precise the band ever had and that’s great because you all know how much is important to have someone with skills and ideas behind the drums. The sound can become more mature and impact with a better drummer and that’s what happened in this new effort.

The style itself, hasn’t changed a lot because we can always find the classic brutal death metal played with intelligence, but the structures of the songs are far more mature and complete, achieving the goal of being both impact and quite complex at the same time, especially in the riffage. Their main influences are Malevolent Creation and Sinister even if; I must admit, they are able to be personal during their songs.

The opener already shows the new drummer’s skills, delivering a long series of fast bass drum parts and sudden clear cut blast beats. The riffage is schizophrenic with a hint of black metal inside to make the whole matter even more obscure and vicious. There is no melody concession but the songs and the riffs are always catchy in their brutality, like also in the blasting brutal attack of “King of the Tyrants”. The riffs are fast and the blast beats even more.

“Blood and Dust” is one of the most mature compositions here with lots of tempo changes, and thanks to the great production, we can hear the syncopation of the restless drums during the blast beats parts. Hardcore, brutal and thrash metal create a devastating mix that could tear down a house. If you want to listen to a more mid paced song, check the great “Beast among Beast” where there are also good reflections about the religion and the nowadays world. The blast beats section in the middle is awesome with the dramatic burden of the guitars.

“Before Human Race” is blacker in the riffage because is full of tremolo picking on the chords and features a great amount of tempo changes with hyper technical drums. “You Are My Enemy” is the most hardcore oriented song here with open chords parts and fast blast beats on them. Here the riffs are far more simple and direct. “Cassandra’s Cry” continues more or less where “Before Human Race” ended with more structured riffs and several tempo changes, always under the flag of brutal death metal.

The self dedicated “Mind Snare” with its charge of anger and grind influences, ends this great album. Here Mind Snare really proved how an Italian band could kick asses to the other ones abroad. It’s a piece of burning brutal death metal and it’s recommended to the fans of these sonorities.