Released: 2009
Following on from what I said a couple of days ago about deathcore in the CTLOG review, this is precisely the sort of shit I was referring to. For 29 minutes, this British band does little more than cut and paste blasting riffs and explosions of sweeps together as if there's no structure whatsoever. Unlike real grindcore bands like Napalm Death or Carcass who also spurned conventional song structures, The Boy Will Drown simply stick things together with no thought as to how it will turn out.
It's almost as though the band couldn't be bothered developing the bunch of riffs and ideas they had into proper songs, so they just played through them all in a haphazardly random fashion, recorded it while they did so and called it an album. Actually, calling this an album is a stretch: the ten "songs" here clock in at just under half an hour, and even that's about fifteen minutes too long because The Boy Will Drown exhausts most of their ideas after the first four songs. A silly, distorted countryfied guitar-plucking interlude crops up again and again, firstly as a minute-long coda to the tasteless "Josef Fritzl", and then a couple of other times later on. It sounds exactly the same each time, and just as pointless. There's the inkling of a melody in "Akura-Class" that makes it a little interesting, but only briefly. The only thing that comes close to a highlight is the 23-seconds of actual grindcore called "Elisabeth Fritzl", another classy reference to one of the worst sex-crimes in history.
Fetish is perhaps the most worthless CD I've heard so far this year. And I've heard a lot.
- Deep Throat
- Irminsul
- Josef Fritzl
- Apollo's Lyre
- Dead Girls
- Epileptic
- Barrymore's Pool Party
- Akura-Class
- Elisabeth Fritzl
- Suis da Luna
Rating: 10%
YOU NEED TO FUCKING LISTEN TO REAL MUSIC YOU SAD WANKER.
ReplyDeleteconstant tempo change works sometimes, damn you're narrow minded.
Tempo changes work if they have a point. If they're just there for the sake of it, it sounds like a pile of shit. Technical deathcore has about a year left before everyone's finally sick of it, and no one will care about this "band" anymore.
ReplyDeleteand since when do real metal fans get offended at name-checks? grow some balls please.
ReplyDeleteif you want everything to sound more like architects' new album dont bother listening.
they dont have structure for a reason. not everyone needs verse chorus verse chorus, its good to have a change.
You're posting anonymously, and telling me I should get some balls?
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