Dissimulate

The album starts off with "Disregard." You know it's going to be fucking br00tal with the opening booms eminating from the guitar. And then, a pretty awesome riff kicks in, at which point, you're like, "Sweet." But then, the drums come in, and drown everything else out. The only time you can actually hear ANY riffmongery at all is when the drums shut the fuck up. It's a damned fast song. If Slayer had done it, it would have been around 5 minutes, but because it was The Berzerker, it is one minute and twenty. That's how fast this is.

And that is pretty much all there is to the album. The drums have an annoying tone to them, and you can't tell when one song ends and another one finishes if the stupid gabba bits don't appear. The vocals are average, nothing to score a robo-chubby over, let alone a regular chubby. There are some pretty fucking cool riffs, sometimes. When there are no drums. But for a lot of it, you can only hear drums and vocals that are too quiet, underneath the drums. It sort of sounds whispered, in a bad way.

I'm surprise that I don't see townies listening to this. It's very a bass heavy album, mostly because it's nearly all blasturbation, and they tend to like music that rumbles through the groud. That's what this album does. I was sitting with my foot on the sub woofer, and I had to take it off, because it started to ache.

And as an added bonus, they butcher a Carcass song at the end. Yay.

The album's not bad, but it's not good - just massively flawed.