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Unfortunately,
Zombie Hate Brigade reminds me of Mortician and
Mortician was cool for about ten minutes. They had cool
artwork but their music, blew chunks of shit, largely.
Like their New York counterparts, Zombie Hate Brigade
(who hail from Littleton, Colorado) draws largely from
horror movies and so, each song in this first
full-length starts with a movie sample. That's the good
part. As the music kicks off, we are mercilessly served
very dull sounding death grind. Needless to say, we
could change the songs around and it wouldn’t make a
difference. They are all basically the same.
Like every
Mortician release, this eponymous debut comes with very cool
artwork. The cover mimics George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. The
artwork in the insert is also great, with what looks like
non-Photoshop zombie drawings. Cool stuff all around. The same
could be said about the samples. My favorite is the one where a
cop is talking…’I’d been a rookie about two weeks, we got the
call. Highway patrol, they saw a car on the road. We responded.
It was a couple. Guy’s body was in the woods 20 yards from the
car. My partner found him. I found the girl. I found her in the
car… and on the road… and in the woods. But that’s not the fun
part. The fun part is what happens next..’. Then, the music
starts and let me tell you, that is NOT the fun part.
The
recording itself is OK. For grind core standards anyway. There
if a shitload of fuzz in the guitars. And the quality of the
riffage deserves that. If not for power at least to mask the low
quality of riffs. Believe me when I say that you’ve heard this
before. This is generic death grind at its lowest common
denominator. The vocals are deep and guttural, a notch in
clarity above those of Mortician’s Will Rahmer. And there is
also a higher screamer, usually going ‘aaargghhh’ in the back.
The drumming is good though. Steady beats and double bass abuse.
They are played by Koko Lopez but he is no longer part of Zombie
Hate Brigade. Maybe it serves him well, because these songs
suck.
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