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FEED THEM DEATH - Duration: 00:27:44
- Available from: 06/20/2024
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Burn Records
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From a purely death/grind reality, daughter of the 'usual' Misery Index, Nasum and Terrorizer, to a project capable of taking on experimentation and transversality, drawing from the worlds of noise, industrial and ambient to immerse oneself in a metropolitan nightmare with murky and destabilizing contents. From one-man band to real group, thanks to the additions of DaviDeath from Cogas on guitar and Nige from Tannhäuser Krieg on drums. The evolution of Feed Them Death does not stop, just as the desire of their creator – that Void who some will remember having been the bassist of Antropofagus at the time of the seminal “No Waste of Flesh” – to test himself and mix from time to time the cards on the table, tracing with the passing of the years and the records an artistic parable that is as changeable as it is, in its own way, coherent.
Published by Brucia Records, a Ligurian label already responsible for the atrocities of LaColpa and Laetitia in Holocaust, “The Malady” therefore inaugurates the three-piece asset of the formation, also marking a return to drier and more direct sounds in a style that however – is It's worth underlining – it doesn't skimp on contaminations and glances beyond the metal sphere.
Eleven songs for less than half an hour of music that start from the teachings of the old Earache catalog (from Unseen Terror to Godflesh, obviously passing through Napalm Death), remain in the English slums thanks to the crust/post-punk derivatives of Amebix and Killing Joke and which end up embracing a sort of free improvisation with acid and jazzy tones, which gives the tracklist an autogenic push on both a rhythmic and guitar level.
A corrosive flow given by the meeting/clash of multiple sources, but which when directed towards the listener has no difficulty in presenting itself as a homogeneous and spontaneous current, between clean choruses emerging from the rear, deviant dancefloor patterns and lashes thrash-core aimed at overturning the discussion, partially sacrificing the glacial effects that had contributed to making “Negative” (2021) a visceral and all-encompassing experience.
Summing up, if the term were not universally synonymous with musical systems much more elegant and refined than this one, we could even speak of avantgarde, given the approach Sui generis with which – even today – the FDT create their narrative; a narrative which, however, as mentioned, here never fails to sound dirty, rough, concise, and which in some ways expands (updating them) the intuitions of a controversial album like “Diatribes”, with episodes of the caliber of “DEATH”, the title track and “Panopticism II” to reiterate the compositional effervescence of leader Maximo and his companions.
At the fourth full-length (not counting the EPs), it can be said that the Italian/English creature hasn't put a foot wrong yet.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM