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NCC aren’t what you would call innovators in Goregrind (which, lets face it, is hardly a genre home to many innovators at all). They play a predominantly midtempo, groovy style of goregrind with forays into blast beat territory making up a decent sized minority of the playtime. The closest comparisons to my mind would be The Day Everything Became Nothing and, the unavoidable comparison in groovy grind, CBT.

In terms of song writing, it’s pure goregrind. Sampled intros and endings surround short songs strung together with simple riffs and standard drumbeats. The major ‘progression’ in each song, such as they are, comes from blast sections breaking up the grooves that are the basis of it all. The only exception to this standard being the closer, Chain Reaction, which is nearly 4 minutes long and is essentially NCC spinning their usual 1:30-2:00 long formula out for double length. There’s nothing new here, but it’s well executed. The formulaic structures do tend to make the songs blend together, but that’s a staple of goregrind and really the samples do a good job of breaking up the songs on a straight listen through. It’s only when listened to individually that the tracks lose their definition.

Vocally, it’s an interestingly limited set. NCC make use of several vocal styles: You have your generic burp/gurgle vox, some slightly more up-tempo gutturals, pig squeals (thankfully not the primary voice in the mix), shouted gang vocals, a few higher rasps and various combinations thereof playing off each other. Each set of vocals has very little range or dynamics, but there’s enough changeups to keep them from being overplayed. There’s apparently a strong scientific/progressive bent in the lyrics and song titles similar to Wormed and like Wormed there’s no chance of making it out from the vocals alone.

Drumming is, once again, standard goregrind fare. It’s made up of blast beats and slower groove patterns, with the rare break into double bass, thrash beats and d-beat. No notable fills to speak of, but it is competent rhythm keeping and avoids the overt sloppiness associated with a lot of grind. The cymbals are buried a bit too much in the mix, but the bass and snare have solid, meaty sounds to them. They’re obviously triggered though, which would be a point against if that didn’t fit perfectly into the albums sound.

Guitars have your standard goregrind sound as well: Heavily percussive, down tuned to hell and back with the production purely based around accenting heaviness. The usual sound, to go along with the usual minimalist riffs. Which are catchy, headbangable things on the whole. They aren’t complex and won’t hold your attention too long, but NCC plough through riffs and songs in short order so by the time your attention begins to wander a new riff is ready to slap you upside the head.


As I’ve no doubt repeated many times, it’s largely a standard goregrind album. But a very well made one. If you like goregrind, you’ll be quite fond of RPSE. If you don’t, it’s not going to change your mind.

Standout tracks: Focused, The Brain is Classical, Something Is Collapsed In My Analbase, Spacetimes Admitting Isolated Horizons