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Necrobutcher - Schizophrenic Christianity

80's Brazilian, lo-fi extreme metal series: 10 - 35%

Byrgan, May 21st, 2009

-A chore-

South Brazil's Necrobutcher adds their demo at the end of the 80s, playing in a chaotic death-grind-black form. Having immediate and to the point songs; a slow, mid and abruptly fast speed; and a scratchy, unmixed rehearsal sounding demo that doesn't entirely help or further the listening experience.

The music displays at times choo-choo train drums, dry screamed vocals that possibly have more bark than the band Caninus and are just as ridiculous, a nearly lost bass guitar, and guitars that are the better of the instruments. Actually, the worst part about this demo is the vocals being in your face and them being everywhere or just plain anywhere, and also the shaky production. Some of the music underneath might strike lucky with a few riffs that either unfortunately didn't develop into longer songs or are just too much of a chore to make your ears dig beneath the muck. Put it this way, there isn't much room for your ears to be close enough to the speakers and to be able to head bang at the same time, not that that's ever stopped anyone.

A few songs immediately stick out. There is literally a track that is only about 4 seconds in actual playing time length; another with about 5 seconds playing time called 'Death to Posers.' It almost sounds like a quick mic-check. I can imagine it would look kind of silly live if one of the band members scratched his head at the same time as another started one of the songs without him. There is another song called 'No Thrash,' which is mostly slow with some abrupt blasts; I guess they were trying to tell us something.

There was a concentration of extreme metal in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais states. Necrobutcher is from Santa Catarina in the southern portion of the country. They play in a variety of metal styles, taking each one of them into heinous extremes. Whether it be the short tracks or the vocals that will get on your nerves even though the demo is only 9 tracks and about 9 minutes long. Although some of the guitar and drum work peaks out at times, but not enough to give a satisfactory experience. This is one that will go down as for the crazed collectors only.