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HUSQWARNAH - Duration: 00:33:02
- Available from: 09/16/2024
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Time To Kill Records
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The Husqwarnah chainsaw has started its engines again and, this time, the death metal edged blade raised by the Lombard band has decided to further sharpen its cutting edges, weighing down those already heavy tones highlighted in their debut three years ago.
It was 2021, in fact, when the quintet from Brianza released “Front: Toward Enemy”, fully highlighting their passion for the heaviest sounds of the Nineties, calling into question names such as Asphyx, Bolt Thrower and Benediction. A brick on the skull, framed within a diabolical melody, highlighted by that shiny green present on the bellicose cover.
Today, after that first foray, and the “Live in Bloom” released in May of last year, the colors that appeared on the cover of the new “Purification Through Sacprice” have the contours of a real fire: the attack that began three years ago has found a second step, razing everything to the ground.
At the head of this new raid we find once again Maurizio Caverzan, whose throat comes directly from the deepest caves; less 'welcoming and gentle' than the previous “Front: Toward Enemy”, more destructive and feral today; listen to the lightning-fast “Lawn Mower Massacre”, with its Cannibal Corpse-like streaks, and you will have immediate confirmation of this. But it is the entire band that stands out in this violent purification: after the hypnotic intro, the assault comes full-face with “To Protect And Sever”, wrapped in a tourbillon of riffs and rhythmic reversals, useful to slap us right in the stomach with the main intent of the Lombard combo.
Hurt us, and do it well: “Wheel Of Torture”, the rotten “Graboids”, on the tracks of a furious black-death, “Soldier 039”, are some of the best formulas with which Husqwarnah have raised the bar of deadly madness, to the detriment of a more accommodating catchiness. This could therefore be a piece of a greater difficulty in accessing this second chapter, but, on the other hand, the group supported by Lorenzo Corno (bass), JP Lisi and Emanuele Biondi (guitars) and Riccardo Rjillo (drums), strengthens its potential, winning on the battlefield of the most rotten and putrescent death.
For lovers of more monolithic sounds, “Purification Through Sacrifice” settles in as an excellent demonstration of versatility by Husqwarnah: Ash Williams worshippers, arm yourselves properly and let your eardrums be drilled properly.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM