Cripple Bastards - Senza Impronte
I don’t normally like doing reviews of EPs, but in the case of Cripple Bastards, there’s more than enough material to figure out what they’re up to and where they’re going. Grind, as a genre, is better suited to the 7-inch EP format than any other. Grind is meant to be short, brutal and to-the-point. Epic length for Grind is three minutes long. As you can imagine, Cripple Bastards don’t have a song that lasts over two minutes and twelve seconds, and this entire EP clocks in under nine. Even with tracks that are that concise, Cripple Bastards still mostly comes off as straight-forward Death Metal with no frills. Only on the last two songs do they go up to speeds that I normally consider Grind. The longer cuts (which isn’t saying much because two minutes is still pretty brief) are still tight and focused. Senza Impronte is, in a way, a very optimized release. It isn’t long enough to become monotonous and it doesn’t fly by in a blur of pounding drums and noisy guitars. You don’t get a whole lot, but what you do get is well produced and brutalizing. If you’re looking for a quick burst of brutal music, this will satisfy you, if only for a fleeting moment. If Altars of Madness is a full meal, Senza Impronte is the musical equivalent of a Snickers bar.
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