Pissed on Resurrectine

A first impression of this album was: Aeternus or to be more precise, Ares and how he uses his voice. The commanding style of the deep growls appears on Slime in the Current’s debut album as well. Yet compared with the art of the Norwegians the emphasis is more on the guitars here. Nevertheless, also some similarities in the atmospheres and the overall style can be found, so a certain audience who should give this release a try was already identified. When speaking of Aeternus, then both black as well as death metal influences can be referred to. Albums like ‘… and So the Night Became’ as well as ‘Shadows of Old’ can be pointed towards as references, but the song-writing seems to have been taken from the latter one; those expansive and long compositions used by the Norwegians make no appearance here.

Slime in the Current play generally fast and powerful black metal, which comes with a surprising density as well as consistency. Despite the emphasis on a rather high tempo, the band avoided an endless monotony of blast beats. Slower interludes make an appearance in several compositions, while a track like ‘Word is Dead’ reminds on the death doom genre. Retained Hunger to Demoralize, the last track of this album, takes the listener to even more obscure and rather unexpected realms. Did the band ran out of ideas or was there one band member who desperately wanted to have his share on the album as well, but was refused any other spot aside the last one possible? Not only is the music in this composition exceedingly slow, towards the end everything merges together into an indistinguishable noisy something. Quite a weird way to close the album.

Pissed on Resurrectine is a lot of fun and you should really get it; especially if you are fond of the Norwegian band Aeternus. Slime in the Current deliver … and they deliver on a high scale. A lot of really cool riffs and arrangements, thundering drums in the background and a vocalist, whose one weakness is that he sounds too much like Ares, this and nothing else can be found on the debut of the American band. Really recommended.

Note:
The album comes professionally printed. No lyrics were printed on the cardboard sheet with which the jewelcase CD is distributed.

Based on a review originally written for ‘A dead spot of light (Number 8)’:
http://www.archive.org/details/ADeadSpotOfLight...number8

Slime in the Current is a three-piece band hailing from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, that recorded its debut album "Pissed on Resurrectine" in 2009. This album was picked up by Chad from Catholicon; he remastered it and released it on his own label UnderWorld Records at the end of 2010.

The opening riff of the first song - "Feast for the Coming Storm" - makes a listener expecting to hear some brutal death metal in the American way, though quite soon one understands that the first impression was not entirely correct. The music on "Pissed on Resurrectine" is death metal-based, with a variety of rushing and crushing brutal parts and growling vocals, but there are also a lot of black metal influences, namely some heart-piercing riffs creating dark and oppressive atmosphere. Musicians demonstrate competence in playing their instruments, and there are some interesting ideas like the addition of some slow, dissonant and depressive parts, and combining them with fast blast-beating passages and some thrashy riffs, but, in my opinion, the album as a whole doesn't really justify all the expectations, and 53 minutes is too much for it, as there isn't anything that would hold listener's attention for the time span of this record. The music is technical and it has a sort of atmosphere, but at the same time it somehow lacks for more feeling and emotion, though I think that this material performed live can have much better effect.

Summing it up, "Pissed on Resurrectine" is a technical blackened death metal album with some good moments that may find its listener. As for my personal impressions, I will definitely remember how Slime in the Current sounds (though at the same time I can't say that they are much original), but I'm not sure if I will ever want to listen to this album again.