Supuration - Chronophobia

Production: Crystalline with backspace condensed.

Review: Continuing in the vein of the previous Supuration album, the band (now calling themselves "S.U.P." to achieve distance, one might guess, from the thunderously uniform grindcore sound that had since the first Supuration dominated bands with medical names, thanks mostly to Carcass) mix the buttermilk melodies of light grunge (Pearl Jam) with their trademark hybrid technical metal, and throw in influences from industrial and jazz to percussion. Vocals have mellowed into a processed electronic growl and are more uniform, with sung vocals used almost exclusively in juxtaposition to the guttural, but this is done without the MTV night/day effect favored by nu-metal bands.

Tracklist:

1. ...but all has changed Heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, doom metal, grindcore or thrash mp3 sample
2. My isolation
3. No rejuvenation Heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, doom metal, grindcore or thrash mp3 sample
4. Chronophobia
5. Room eleven
6. Twins
7. Like a wicker man that will never burn !
8. Overwhelming lethargy
9. Machinations
10. Strange impulse Heavy metal, death metal, speed metal, doom metal, grindcore or thrash mp3 sample

Length: 48:19

Supuration - Chronophobia: Death Metal 1999 Supuration

Copyright © 1999 Holy

Looser in compositional style than earlier work, this album is a pursuit of musical spaces more than paths through them, but nonetheless does not abandon its emphasis on the structure and hence poetry of interlocking expressions leading from assumption to conclusion through internal conflict. Although one might not think to look for such things hiding behind such a gentle expression, some truly adroit riffcraft in a style that unites heavy music from Led Zeppelin to Atheist lurks on this album.