This band fall into a category I've never reviewed before as they are the first band I've heard who play Swedish hardcore punk/ chaotic metal but sing in Japanese. Yes, you read that right and, damn, do they blast at my ears! From the crazy sounds and pummelling drums heralding the opener that the press release translates as Kaihou it's just a mental onslaught to go nuts to.
For the record, the album was recorded in Sweden and mixed in Japan. Not that it makes any difference to the brutality of the noise and anger on Kenzennapu Sieshin Houkai, which blasts through my head like a paranoid nut case on a rampage and is gone before you know it as they don't hang around.
The songs soon start to blend into each other as having no words to hold onto it's all about the mad, mad noise and dark disturbing chaos it creates. I wonder why they have NWOBHM on one side of the poster included with the CD? I wonder what I would have got with the vinyl or cassette versions of the album.
Bouryoku sounds a bit like KSMB crossed with Gallows and Extreme Noise Terror. It's fearsome and disturbing with a frantic as all hell guitar solo almost buried under the drums and other assorted noise. Nangijala ups the anger and pain as if they are fighting while playing and trying to kick the crap out of each other. The yelps are raging with the guitars and drums at breakneck speed.
Shisuru Sekai, Iki Jigoku is a dense anger-filled pummel your brain paean to insanity and back, black punk metal. It pins you to the wall and assaults your mind; a destroyer of a tune. Shihaisya centres around a drum solo of brain-pummelling nastiness before the even nastier vocals destroy any ideas of peace you many have been harbouring in a hail of hatred.
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They cram so much into the just under two minutes of Kyogi Sakuryaku that it comes off like Motorhead meets Extreme Noise Terror and has a fight with Cradle Of Filth for who can emerge sounding faster nastier and louder. Chinurareta Tousou is heavier still with some almost chanted vocals fighting against the raging guitars and pummel the fuck out of it bass playing.
The album closes with Hoppou No Kurayami, the one atypically nice and quiet tune with what sounds like a pump organ playing as if they have nicked their Mum's Anita Livstrand LPS for inspiration and created a dark sombre and very quiet (by the rest of the album's) standards chill out tune to encourage us all to stumble back to reality before they start pummelling us again.
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