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Undercroft
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Vinnie
Apicella
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This Chilean trio shakes the ground with such force it's
no wonder they were forced to flee their homeland… actually that's not
true but believable enough after hearing this. So they end up in Sweden
where the production of "Evilusion" was undertaken and I'm sure many of
the underpaid personnel with it… The result is a tension filled
release that leaves burn marks on your disc player and scars on your
own
throat when all the while you're hoping to no avail the singer will at
least take a short breath-right at a level with Araya's ruthlessness on
the last Slayer record only much deeper and animalistic. They're a
Death
Metal band without a trace of melody, plenty o' meanness and a
lyrically
terse delivery that follows their conceived "Evil" course but gets a
bit
cartoonish after the fourth or fifth look… yet most listeners need not
be as analytical as I who conspires to make sense of this all by
offering more than, "searing riffs driving a brutal beat and lessening
the human threshold for pain to near ravaging proportions." They got
the
art of shred down to a science with the intensity and the underground
all working in their favor-a layman's Napalm, or baby Bolt Thrower but
not much else to look forward to unless you happen to embrace
trench-like warfare from one note to the next… Four songs in,
"Celebration Of Sin" really makes the first impact, if judging outside
of pure volume. "Psychopath" has some semblance of groove; the senses
dulling speed-picking of "Sub Race" is a keeper; The dark complacency
of
"Bridges To Melissa" sees somberness invade anger for a few welcome
moments of relief, and then onto where you'll share pain with Pazuzu
and
await Sumerian magic in the "Temples Of Carrion," not a particularly
great song, just threw it in cause I like the lyrics. Dissonance,
destruction and death, all key role players in the overall creation of
"Evilusion" which has its moments but could stand a furthering of
individual song principles and improved construction-see "Bridges To
Melissa,"-if they're planning to have a go with the Gods below.
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