Parricide (Poland) - Just Five
Is that fucking cowbell that I hear? On a Death Metal album? What the fuck? Clearly, Parricide has a drum wanker behind the stool. The cowbell and the fact that he drowns out everyone else except for the vocalist makes this obvious. Drum wankers are rarer than guitar wankers, but they do exist. Hellhammer from Mayhem, for example, is a drum wanker. They’re technical drummers that want to hit you over the head with how well they can play. That means arranging things so that the drumming is hyper-technical and the album has to showcase that in some way. There are brutal, down-tuned guitars on this album, but making any sense of the riffing is impossible because the majority of the time, you can’t hear the guitars clearly behind the guttural vocals and the drummer blasting away. This is, to use a phrase I haven’t in a while, a blast-beat Rap record. It’s essentially all vocals and drums. If I wanted to listen to a Rap album, I’ll pull out AK-69’s The Red Magic . At least that intends to be all bass and vocals. And there isn’t any cowbell. There aren’t any stupid samples in what sounded like Polish/Russian/some Eastern European Slavic tongue either, which brings me to my second gripe. I don’t know if this is a concept album, but almost every other track was an interlude where some old lady was shrieking something and since I don’t understand Polish (or whatever it is - I assume it’s Polish because, according to Encyclopaedia Metallum, this band is from Poland), I have no idea what this is about or why it’s here. All I know is that it irritates me. I wanted to hit the stop button after the second track and listen to something else. I can’t imagine spending money on this album, particularly after listening to it. And the cover art… This release has “You don’t want to buy this” written all over it. I don’t think I’d even take it if the label gave it to me free for purchasing something else that was worthwhile. Skip this. You’re not missing anything. I have an addiction and that addiction requires more Metal, not more cowbell.
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