Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication
If you like your Black Metal as out of control as humanly possible without it degenerating into noise, behold your new gods. I remember that Blasphemy was once considered “Black Grind,” but that title is more appropriately bestowed on this album. As wild and crazy as Blasphemy was, Revenge is even more out of control. This is as much a Grind album as it is Black Metal. I’m not a huge fan of Grindcore but this is down there with Carcass (Reek of Putrefaction-era) in terms of how filthy and brutal it is. You have to listen to this a couple of times before you appreciate how ugly and disgusting Scum.Collapse.Eradication sounds. This is the musical equivalent of chucking someone into a wood chipper with the audio of Donald Duck being gang-raped as the vocals. If I could make one change, though, I would lower the level of the snare drum. There are times when the only things you really hear are the snare and the vocals, with the guitars incoherent rumblings in the background. A case can be made that the snare drum being as loud as it is lends to the chaos. If you like everything chaotic as all fucking hell, then I guess it works. Personally, I find all the lack of structure a bit too much for an album of this length. I’m not a Grind fan so I like the songs to have more structure and more order, but that’s a personal preference. If you like early Carcass and Blasphemy, this is surely an album you’ll appreciate.
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