Rest in Gore - Culinary Buffet of Hacked Innards
I suppose the title of the album kind of gives it away that this Japanese trio aren’t 100% serious, but it seeps through even into the actual sound of the record. The kick drums and toms sound like empty two-liter bottles pounded on a stainless steel counter. Take a rubber band, hold it in place with your teeth, stretch it four inches from your and face pluck it, and now you essentially have their bass tone. The vocals of Masaki Hidaka are also comical in their guttural depth. He is the quintessential cookie cutter Cookie Monster. All that said, I don’t hate the album. It is full of solid riffs, sick breakdowns, and mind-bending bass guitar tweedly-deedlies. In fact, they are near Alex Websteresque in their tweedly-deedliness. But even for the average Death Metal fan, let alone a lifer as myself, I doubt this will penetrate your top 500. It’s just too middle-of-the-road and forgettable. You could do worse though.
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