Mortician
Chainsaw Dismemberment
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There are very few primitive recordings in my arsenal I will always
cherish.
The primeval, wicked simplicity is sometimes ten fold more powerful than the most sophisticated, progressive and enlightened albums out there. The pure rawness, music which you find it hard to explain what element in it you like the most, this and more; what actually you like at all in this "piece of crap" you're listening to...
The debut of German Blood's 'Impulse to destroy' is a fine example to the above mentioned; Insane grind, murderous and simpler than a white painted wall, that as far as I'm concerned, is the best grind-core album ever recorded. Not because it's a really 'great' album, but due to it being grind-core the way grind-core meant to be. And yes, it is very enjoyable listening to.
Another fine example is German Atrocity's 7" 'Blue Blood' recorded way back in the eighties, a vinyl amazing in its simple, cruel, effective ferocity.
If we cross the Atlantic ocean, we could find yet another fine examples that will surely clear the fog of my intentions; Suffocation being the first, whose album 'Effigy of the forgotten' is the best brutal metal album ever recorded. Period. And there's Mortician, which is in a league of its own.
Mortician does not make music. Mortician produce professional, inhumane and scary white noise. Surprisingly, this sonic sadism is enjoyable in a non-coherent fashion. Many of the underground active bands tend to claim they are the most brutal acts on the planet. Well, Mortician is the real thing! Forget about potent and highly skilled drummers, let's bring a machine-drum/gun, not a single drummer could ever compete with. Forget about texts, let's sample classic horror movies clips, take stark raving mad guitars, add rabies infected growls and make everybody's ears bleed. Got the picture? You could never really understand unless you have listened very well to the uniquely thoughtful anarchy called 'Mortician'.
The sound is very good, Hi-Tech-ish, every beat of the drum/gun-machine, however intense and crowded, is well heard, and those hellish guitars - what amplifier can deal with these brute and crass yet exquisitely surgeon's-knife sharp sounds - that rip and cut throughout this wonderful lunacy?
I have always claimed it's not a big deal playing noise. Anyone can produce noise easily. After all, 'Chainsaw Dismemberment' isn't even coming close to be defined as 'noise'. This is the last declaration, the final frontier, the border beyond which lays only wasteland. It could be the perfect soundtrack to Alien or Hellraiser 4 movies, and even if you're very intelligent, highly intellectual and sophisticated, take a 50 minutes trip into the mind of a sadistic zombie - and after the nightmare is over, you will wake up with a stupid smile upon thy face.
It's a promise!!
© 2000 c. drishner
The primeval, wicked simplicity is sometimes ten fold more powerful than the most sophisticated, progressive and enlightened albums out there. The pure rawness, music which you find it hard to explain what element in it you like the most, this and more; what actually you like at all in this "piece of crap" you're listening to...
The debut of German Blood's 'Impulse to destroy' is a fine example to the above mentioned; Insane grind, murderous and simpler than a white painted wall, that as far as I'm concerned, is the best grind-core album ever recorded. Not because it's a really 'great' album, but due to it being grind-core the way grind-core meant to be. And yes, it is very enjoyable listening to.
Another fine example is German Atrocity's 7" 'Blue Blood' recorded way back in the eighties, a vinyl amazing in its simple, cruel, effective ferocity.
If we cross the Atlantic ocean, we could find yet another fine examples that will surely clear the fog of my intentions; Suffocation being the first, whose album 'Effigy of the forgotten' is the best brutal metal album ever recorded. Period. And there's Mortician, which is in a league of its own.
Mortician does not make music. Mortician produce professional, inhumane and scary white noise. Surprisingly, this sonic sadism is enjoyable in a non-coherent fashion. Many of the underground active bands tend to claim they are the most brutal acts on the planet. Well, Mortician is the real thing! Forget about potent and highly skilled drummers, let's bring a machine-drum/gun, not a single drummer could ever compete with. Forget about texts, let's sample classic horror movies clips, take stark raving mad guitars, add rabies infected growls and make everybody's ears bleed. Got the picture? You could never really understand unless you have listened very well to the uniquely thoughtful anarchy called 'Mortician'.
The sound is very good, Hi-Tech-ish, every beat of the drum/gun-machine, however intense and crowded, is well heard, and those hellish guitars - what amplifier can deal with these brute and crass yet exquisitely surgeon's-knife sharp sounds - that rip and cut throughout this wonderful lunacy?
I have always claimed it's not a big deal playing noise. Anyone can produce noise easily. After all, 'Chainsaw Dismemberment' isn't even coming close to be defined as 'noise'. This is the last declaration, the final frontier, the border beyond which lays only wasteland. It could be the perfect soundtrack to Alien or Hellraiser 4 movies, and even if you're very intelligent, highly intellectual and sophisticated, take a 50 minutes trip into the mind of a sadistic zombie - and after the nightmare is over, you will wake up with a stupid smile upon thy face.
It's a promise!!
© 2000 c. drishner