Brood Of Hatred
Skinless Agony ()
Wydane przez Crime RecordsRok wydania Kraj TunisiaNapisał Flemming Gabin7
With a bandname taken from a song off Suffocation’s "Pierced From Within", you probably expected this to be fucken US death metal, right? Well, no. Tunesia’s Brood Of Hatred play a more European kind of death metal, much like Germany’s little heard Golem and its "Dreamweaver" record on Nuclear Blast. Not that I’m complaining. Just fucken saying. I suppose I’m to fall out of my fucken chair that some assholes from Tunisia were able to record and release an album in Europe. Boo fucken hoo. The production is typically modern: sterile, plastic, flat as a fucken pancake and completely fucken artificial. You can hear the bass plucking away, that’s a start. This is played fucken slow too, which is a breather. At least these sad sacks of shit remember to write songs and not noodle endlessly. Oh yeah, it certainly is brutal, I’ll give them that much. I suppose these sad sacks of shit really like PowerMorbid 5000 and Death, cos it has signatures of both. The riffs are kinda angular, the whole thing sounds kinda fucken mechanical. Hey, the solo’ing is pretty sweet. I’m usually not a fucken fan of this type dry and lifeless sort of modern death metal, but this is pretty tolerable. No, this is pretty good even. The cover artwork looks like the typical metalcore or deathcore album, and Odin knows how the fuck the artwork is supposed to relate to the album title - but here we go asking questions again. Never a good idea in underground death metal, or metal in general. So, uhm, Brood Of Hatred don’t sound nearly as hateful as their name suggest, nor do they remotely worship Suffocation - and that’s okay. There were enough Suffocation rip-offs in the 90s, Odin knows we don’t need any fucken more of them. I have no idea what "Skinless Agony" is supposed to mean, but this is a pretty good record. It doesn’t have any atmosphere whatsoever, and it is completely fucken emaciated by the sterile production, but at least it has songs. Memorable ones even. That’s fucken rare in the genre these days. Just fucken saying. Brood Of Hatred is death metal that isn’t stupid.
broodofhatred.bandcamp.com, www.crimerecords.no
