Unapologetic. Destructive.
Breakneck. Just a few simple words to get you ready for what you’re about to
discover with the new Benighted
record “Necrobreed”. Before we begin
just sit back, take a breather and get ready for a world filled with Death
Metal, Grindcore, and blastbeats, because everything is better with blastbeats.
The album kicks
off with an intro track that’s both eerie and intriguing. “Hush Little Baby” features Aurelie Raidron from the band Penumbra in a spoken word introduction
to the album that I’m fairly certain see’s a crazy woman kill her child and
then start singing to it. Death Metal.
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A couple of the
big, stand out tracks on the album are; “Forgive
Me Father” which features The Black
Dahlia Murder's vocalist Trevor Strnad as a guest vocalist,
as well as “Cum With Disgust”. Let’s
start with the former here and let the title of the latter sink in for a
minute. Within the first minute of “Forgive
Me Father,” you’re introduced to the contrasting vocals of Benighted's very own Julian
Truchan and Strnad is very unique,
for anyone who is familiar with both vocalist, they are both Death Metal
frontmen so theoretically the vocals shouldn’t be as different as they are but
with Strnad
and his more Melodic background while Truchan has a Black Metal background
and blends more Grindcore, speedy vocals into his style and has a grasp on how
to pull off the infamous “pig squeal” the contrast is actually like day and
night to any Extreme Metal fans. This is something many, many bands would love
to pull off, but very few do so points to Benighted
on that one.
The latter of
the two songs, now that you'd had a second to digest the title, “Cum With Disgust” is just a pure Death
Metal headbanger. One of those songs that kicks off with a riff that gets all
the hair in the house everywhere. After about a minute the song kicks into high
gear, with a break followed by pure chaos. This would be the perfect spot for
the band to split the house for a wall of death, but that’s just my thoughts
because the second that silence ends, any crowd would be in a frenzy anyways.
The song is an open and shut case, starts off with heavy headbanging, followed
by a pure blitz of Death Metal destruction and then, it’s done.
The album is
chalk full of goodies for Death Metal and Grindcore fans alike. The blend of
technicality from Death Metal and speed from Grindcore is so pure that it would
probably get fans of either genre interested in each and every song. Benighted
have a great album here and anyone new to the band could very easily start
right here, you’ll be hooked and delve backwards into Benighted's discography. The only complaint is that this album
plays it safe, it doesn’t really do anything new from the past few releases,
which isn’t bad as long as all the songs are as solid as they are, it just
would have been nice to see a little bit more experimentation on one or two of
the songs. All around “Necrobreed”
is a great album from Season of Mist's
very own Benighted.
75/100
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