We All Will Die One Day

Well, this is one hell of an EP. Bone Tower plays a rather modern, blasting, chaotic form of deathgrind with insanely fast blast-beats, lots of different riffs and tempo changes, and a fuckload of feedback noise to make everything more sick and deranged. It's a constant assault on the senses that never settles down for a stable formula, giving you no rest whatsoever, exactly as grindcore (be it old school or modern) should always do.

Right from the get-go, tracks like "Dislodging Splinters" show a very good taste for deranged-sounding, facefucking tremolo riffs, which reach their peak on the hyper-fast, batshit insane track "Mangled Wounds". Bone Tower does clearly have a taste for dissonance and knows how to use atonality in a way that doesn't sound boring nor droning. Their strategic use of feedback in the space between riffs and songs does perfectly set the mood for the content of this EP, whose riffs are generally not particularly melodic or consonant, preferring a fairly technical, pummeling, amelodic approach, at times reinforced by some outright noisy, dissonant chords on songs like "Under a Veil", "Empty Cave" and the intro riff of the title-track. A couple of electronic interludes ("Cower Away" and "The Sun") make an appearance, and guess what - even those manage to sound violent, noisy and extreme in their own way, thanks to their pummeling beats and rumbling, abstract textures, blending perfectly with the grinding mayhem of the other tracks.

This band doesn't shy away from trying many different things within each song, and yet, all of the various formulas they attempt manage to sound captivating and consistent: Bone Tower are obvious songwriting masters, knowing how to tie their countless different ideas together, making them communicate in spite of their vastly different nature. You get dissonant tremolo riffs, you get hardcore riffs, you get noisy chords, you get some technical noodling (still measured and expressive enough to sound like proper riffing) and even the occasional chugging section on tracks like "Am I Conscious" or "Empty Cave" - which, more than a poor excuse for a moshing breakdown, seems to just be a reinforcement of the EP's noisy, atonal component, with many dissonant chords being used even during those sections, enhancing the alienating vibe of the record even when you'd be supposed to just headbang and mosh. This is how extreme music should truly sound.

"We All Will Die One Day" is a fantastic debut EP for this Canadian grind ensemble. Bone Tower are one of those young realities (along with other notable new bands such as One Day in Fukushima) showing us exactly how modern grind should be played - still focusing on the noisy, chaotic component instead of watering it down with external, incompatible influences or overly standardized riffing. I feel so much potential in this band, and I hope they keep building more and more on their brilliant ingredients and skills: if they do so, their first full-length might take the grindcore scene by storm.