Writer Eli Zeger
Label: To Live A Lie Records
There isn’t much a band can do in a song that’s less than two minutes. And there isn’t much that a reviewer can say about songs that are less than two minutes.
However, what The Kill has accomplished in their short songs is amazing.
On this Australian grindcore trio’s third full-length album, intricate drum patterns and powerful guitar riffs are incorporated into fifteen songs of powerviolence righteousness. The album clocks in at just over 19 minutes.
When I first listened to “Make ‘Em Suffer”, I thought I would pause it by the third or fourth song and come back to it later. The next thing I knew this fifteen track collection was already over. The album went by quickly, but I really enjoyed it.
Full review after the jump!
All of the album’s songs are around the same aggressive tempo, preventing the energy from declining. Production wise, the songs follow the classic powerviolence production style. It’s like being in the ring with Anderson Silva: the vocals punch you in the throat, the guitars smash you straight in the face, and the drums and bass are like unpitying knees to your nut-sack.
The first track of the LP is entitled “Cactus”. It starts like a volcano building up with an ocean of feedback lava. After around forty seconds the volcano erupts into lightning fast blast-beats and violent guitar lines lasting throughout the whole album.
“Make ‘Em Suffer” also includes a decapitating cover of Slayer’s “Necrophobic” from the 1986 classic “Reign In Blood”.
Some of the most slaughtering cuts include “Mowed”, “Die Hards In Denim”, and “Second To None”.
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