Animosity
My love for you is like a rock/BERZERKER/Would you like to suck my cock?/BERZERKER. No, unfortunately, this is not an album from that lovable Russian metal singer in Clerks, it’s just a way-serious industrial death metal band. The most notable thing to mention right off the top is that the drums are programmed. This is done to achieve a level of speed that a human can’t possibly achieve, and I have mixed feelings about this. It’s a cop-out to use a machine in order to play something that is supposed to be organic such as metal. On the other hand, at times it sounds really cool to hear a machine spit out a flurry of blastbeats. Over the course of an album, it gets tiresome. The vocals are basically death growls throughout the whole thing; I caught a couple of lines such as “Fuck your religion, you follow like sheep” in “Eye for an Eye” and “We all die” in “The Cancer”. That’s about it.
The speed is tampered with sometimes such as the beginning of “False Hope”, and “Evolution” features a nice thrashing in the middle that goes on without vocals for a bit. There’s some cool riffage in “Retribution” and “Lonely World” has a slow, plodding beginning that sounds like Black Sabbath or Down, and shifts back into the frantic, speedy drums that make up the rest of the album. The song ends on a sludgy note, making for a nice change of pace. Death metal fans should probably dig this, but if you’re not a fan of that genre, I’d say stay away.
