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TESTAMENT
The Formation of Damnation
(Nuclear Blast)

5IVE
Hesperus
(Hydra Head)

UFOMAMMUT
Idolum
(Supernatural Cat)

MACHINIST
S/T
(Debello)

HEX MACHINE
Run to Earth
(Molsook)

CORPUS CHRISTII
Rising
(Moribund)

MUTE THE SILENCE
Cursed With Ambition 
(Venerate Industries)
 
SADAHARU
Resist.Revolt.Reclaim
(CI)
 
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MACHINIST

S/T
(Debello)


 

Man, I am all for being brutal. So when I get a record as extreme as this hysterical piece of aural rape I kind of can’t help but smile and then laugh out loud like a retarded idiot. Not that style wise Machinist approximates the excessive brutality of Gaza, but this five song recording is frankly causing the same sort of effect on me; that in which I start biting my nails in a nervous spur, then move onto cutting my cuticles with a sharp knife only to move onto hastily using a Swiss Army knife in order to cut off beefy chunklets of meat from my upper arm, which I then use to paint circles in my cheekbones. I then go onto powdering flour on the rest of my face. The whole thing is quite childish to tell you the truth, especially the part when I start wondering about what it would be like to take barbiturates and go on a stroll through the boulevard of broken heads.

 

Fuck, Machinist is insane. And they make me mad because I can’t find any information about them. I am growing hungry for their music. This five song teaser absolutely rules; it is what grind and extreme metal should be. It’s a quick fix, a rush of meth through your nostrils and straight into your hippocampus. It will have you walking like an idiot, it will disorient you like I guess the drummer must feel after doing some of the legwork for “Joe Shit the Rag Man”.

 

Clocking at slightly over eleven minutes, Machinist seems out to prove that brutality shall be that and that’s that. Immensely brutal vocals, quick moments of speed, shifting rhythms that crash and burn through broken melodies and the type of song structure that belong as much to extreme metalheads as it does to experimental trippers.    



 

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