This split comprises the best material either band has put forth thus far. Period. Two examples of monstrous, pristine blends of punk and metal wreak havoc on this split. Withdrawal roar under the Holy Terror banner, spewing their thrash-laden hardcore with chilling malcontent. Charlotte’s Young and in the Way succeed at breaking your ear-drumheads with their grim blitzkrieg-marriage of crust and black metal. Their split is all indulgence, one of those wholesome sacrificial offerings that begs to simply be raged to.
Young and in the Way‘s contribution brings us two tracks, the first of which being the assault called “Psychopathy.” Much blacker than past material, “Psychopathy” is a song that makes bounds in showcasing Young and in the Way’s mastery of their craft. The spells and smells of rotten cowheads have summoned, successfully, into this world, one of the band’s best tracks to date. The riffs sweep like winds over barren snow drifts, Nordic ice chipping-off as the chords are ran blood bare. “Psychopathy” snarls its malevolence, a berserk creature, focused on the blast-beat blizzard at hand. “Vaticide” opens like scream translated into music, surrounding the listener, consuming them and carrying them on rising church fires. Young and in the Way amazes in the capturing of their roots; “Vaticide” has horns that gleam in candlelight and is dirtier than late January sleet. Of greatest substance is that this split continues the band’s recent tradition of upping their own ante.
Withdrawal‘s side of this release contains what is, without question, their finest work. The unholy fire sparked into life by the incendiary “Faith, Flesh and Blood” have bloomed into a phantasmal blaze. Whatever restraint that had existed on prior releases is all but gone here, unleashing a flurry of thrastastic riff sammiches and old-fashioned, misanthropic fun. “Of Soul and Sacrifice” verges on blissful terror with how easily it will possess one to rapidly rise and start assaulting whatever inanimate (or animate) objects are around you. “Guardian Angel” is Withdrawal’s greatest gift to this record, a storm wail unable to be ignored. At times in-your-face aggressive, others isolatory and resonant, “Guardian Angel” is as lively as it is lonely. A jet diamond chiseled from a gloom, doom rough. “Human Garbage Existence Disease” is an infestation of hellion speed that desires nothing more than to contort the common human into an unrecognizable mess. A metallic majesty, this is an ailment to which a cure would be most unwelcome.
This split can be ordered from A389 Recordings here and can be streamed and bought in full at the links above.
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Withdrawal can be found here and “Faith, Flesh and Blood” can be listened to here.
Full-lengths are due out by both bands throughout 2013.
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