Swan Grinder is the third album by Schkeuditzer Kreuz who recorded this album in a cabin studio they built themselves in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales In Australia, they claim to make Industrial Synth Crust or D-beat Raw Synth Punk with a Trans Positive Anti-Fascist Synth Crust edge, they also claim to be unpronounceable and unlistenable. Schkeuditzer Kreuz are Kieran Hills solo band, the album was mixed and mastered at the Cage by Martin Bowes.
The album opens with a neo classical intro to the title track Swan Grinder that gets interrupted by a narrator and some dark distorting guitars and fear inducing drums with drilling noises, before the grunted vocals come into scour the earth, for signs that Swans may return as our rulers, or whatever the grunts are on about, eventually voices start babbling across the speakers with phaser sounds and more doom infected grunts.
Trips And Trepidation is built around sirens and colossally nasty beats, trying to avoid a world full of death, the lull in the middle feels like a brief respite, before it all goes off again crushing your brain into the dirt once more.
Sirens Of Death are coming for you unless you stop the rot and work to make the world a better more peaceful place, so that super nasty crust industrial grindcore would be unnecessary, while he spits the truth, we have always been at war at us, which is certainly true of the USA, blasted core of intense clattering synths maul your mind, making you stand up and fight the hatred.
Present Eternal has a slow soft opening, the beats build and crash the party, breaking open your narrow point of view, trying to make clear a change of global direction is needed.
Keep Dancing no matter how nutty the music is, you just have to keep dancing, no not like chump, really freaky deaky dancing, for this nosebleed crust punk epic, that has a slight Ministry feel, to the way it pounds your brain.
Systematic Death (Crass) takes the crust punk classic and lets the synths go manic panic, almost as distressed as the world currently is, so get punching the air and realize just how screwed the system really is.
Inhale go on take a deep hit of that stuff, it might make the world make more sense, or just desensitize you to everything destroying the world as we knew it, the vocals seem to burp despair into your ear, the synths rise like the heaviest Manorexia tunes, you fill the room with your exhalations with the pounding getting harsher.
The album closes with Poor Impulse Control one last blasted diseased rampage through the disasters of the 2020's, they can't help but want you to rot and to destroy all the idiots running the world.
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