The phrase 'fast and furious' has never been more fitting than in context of APMD's debut album. Featuring members of All Hope Must Die, Converge and Bloodhorse, the eight tracks are pacey and positively aflame with searing, white-hot rage. Anger is indeed an energy, and 'God is War' could power the national grid for a week on just one single play.
Thrashing metallic crust-punk at it's most devastating extreme, the titles speak – or scream, hoarse-throatedly in your face – for themselves: 'Death Dealer'; 'The Blessed Void'; 'Pulverizer'. There's nothing comforting or friendly about this album, and there's nothing subtle either, but then, that's not what APMD are about. This pure, brute force. It's relentlessly, mercilessly heavy, everything louder – and faster – than everything else. There's nowhere to hide.
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When they do slow the pace – just a fraction – as on the title track and the introduction of 'Third World Genocide' it's no less punishing or incendiary.
The all-encompassing sonic brutality culminates in the eight-and-a-half minute 'Sadistic Vindicator'. It requires little commentary: suffice it to say that the apocalypse won't sound as punishing as this exercise in aural annihilation.
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