Released: 2006
It would have been easy to completely write-off Resection as yet another boneheaded gutteral death metal band if it wasn’t for several intrinsic differences. First of all the production is quite good, giving the band a truly blasting sound and giving the guitars something more of a thrash edge than the blunt, indefinable burping some similar bands employ in an effort to sound as heavy as possible. Even the drums sound alive, pounded furiously by Henning Paulsen who is now with the awful Brodequin. While their grasp of English is less than perfect, lyrically this German three piece explores some thought-provoking ideas about the destruction of the environment and the erosion of civil liberties, among other things.
In truth, however, it wouldn’t matter if they were singing Latvian borscht recipes in Estonian, because the vocals are merely a collection of gutteral barks, rasps and shouts that are completely unintelligible. And while some of the riffs are actually quite catchy, there simply isn’t enough of them and they all start to sound very alike very quickly. Resection rip through their songs with a fiendish ferocity that in the end feels like you’ve been standing too close to a jackhammer for half an hour. Zenith offers nothing new but for what it is it’s actually not half bad, even if it will appeal strictly to fans of unrestrained brutality.
- The Manhattan Project
- Sambiki Saru or the Three No-Evil Monkeys
- Effect on My Inner Conflict
- Dehydration of an Industrial Land
- Intolerance and Ban
- Preprogrammed End
- From Murder to Genocide
- Pursuit of Illusion
- Putative Unison
Rating: 51%
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