Fuck yes! Here we have four tracks of absolutely destructive hardcore/punk featuring former members of Black Army Jacket unloading a vicious blend of Swedish styled crust with hints of Tragedy-esque melody and energy and just the right amount of added metal influences. Expect lots of vocal tradeoffs between straight yells and lower shouts, while the music hits on everything from pounding chord progressions and surging fast paced crust to borderline caustic speeds with intense picking patterns and lots of dissonant metal textures. "Collaborator" kicks things off with a noisy wall of guitars and frantic drum fills before the subtly melodic power chords take hold and set the pace for what's to come, while "Race to the Bottom" ups the metal with some unexpectedly fast tremolo picking and some of the most powerful vocal arrangements herein. "Blood and Treasure" has a quick little dissonant intro before plowing right into a straightforward power chord rhythm that later slides into a chunkier pattern almost out of nowhere to close things off; while the distorted bass and dissonant feedback that opens "Sinking Ship" similarly gives way to a speedy base of simplistic power chords with lots of twisted dissonant padding - and what about that breakdown!? Crushing shit! I fuckin' love it! The recording is pretty god damn good, too! Certain aspects of the mix do make it sound like a demo, but it doesn't really need much work. The guitars are heavy and have just the right amount of rawness, the bass tone kicks ass, and the drums sound dry and natural. I'd like to hear the vocals given a little more ferocity and warmth (though they need to be pulled closer in against the music for sure), and the mix could stand to give the bass a hint more clarity to balance things out more evenly, but for the most part they're totally on the right track. The CD-R comes in a black sleeve with green screenprinting, while the xeroxed insert provides the lyrics and such, which of course deal with socio-political commentary in the form of artistic abstractions that waver in terms of literal bluntness: "Callous hearts, callous minds. Extreme indifference all the time unraveling, forward into the void as we're digging ourselves a common unmarked grave..." This is absolutely awesome material. It's not the most original thing in the world by any means, but with songwriting this strong I don't give a rat's ass! Fans of this style should check this out right away, and certainly look way the fuck out for these guys, because the future should yield some incredible jams from these cats. Great work.
[self-released]
Running time - 11:09, Tracks: 4
[Notable tracks: all four fuckin' kill]
Disnihil - http://www.myspace.com/disnihil
