Crust

First album of Sarcófago, "I.N.R.I.", was in the terms of 1980s very heavy and brutal black metal album. Thirteen years later Sarcófago released their second EP which turned out to be also their swansong. And though it's not as avant gardist, not as shocking, not as original and not as good as "I.N.R.I.", it surely is also very heavy and brutal album.

Tracks are hyper fast. Drum machine, which is just insane, 'plays' extremely fast endless blast beats. Though it obviously is not real trummer (the drum sound is not very authentic), it some way fits to this music. If some album presents brutal death metal, it is this EP. Vocals are heavily effected and it's almost impossible to follow the lyrics even with lyric sheet. Guitar and bass lines are simple and are just bringing a mass of sound to this album. Insane drumming is the main thing on this album. No boring solos to show how technical the band is, no unnecessary shit. Just brutal death metal!

Songs are very similar. Though riffs are quite different in every song, every song sounds quite same because of the production and the drumming... My favourite is "Day of the Dead" which has cool comps and is maybe the most original song on this album. "FOMBM (Fuck Off Melodic Black Metal)" is also a great one, thanks to the lyrics... "Fuck off Dimmu Borgir, fuck off Cradle of Filth!!!" Also the intro "Sonic Images of New Millenium Decay" has interesting acoustic intro which soon turns out to be just an introduction, when the track bursts out to another grinding sonic apocalypse. Closing & title track "Crust" is bit similar to some mid tempo tracks such as "Army of the Damned" on "The Worst". Nothing great, but still not bad.

So, this is very brutal stuff, but not very original. And of course brutal doesn't mean that it's automatically good. Actually I'm not sure if I really like this album or not, at least I don't listen it too often. But it truly is very interesting experiment by great extreme metal band... And when compared to another brutal death metal bands... Well, this stuff makes Cannibal Corpse look like a bunch of school kids. Heils to Sarcófago!