Industrial Puke – Alive to no avail

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• Band:
  Industrial Puke
• Duration: 00:35:00
• Available from: 28/03/2025
• Label:

• Suicide Records

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With “Alive to no avail”, the industrial Puke return with a second full-length that consolidates and expands what started with the previous “Born into the Twising Rope”. The Swedish band, led by musicians from realities such as the Rentokiller and the always underestimated Burst, continues to propose what we could call a mixture of hardcore crust and death metal, but in this circumstance with a slightly wider expressive range and some small stylistic novelties.
From the first notes, it is perceived how the group has worked on the accentuation of the extremes of its sound. When the industrial can push on the accelerator, the result is more sharp than ever, directed and free of frills, starting from the hardcore crust bases to arrive on the Grind threshold. On the contrary, the slowdowns this time bring with them a more massive and dense incede, which highlights a structural robustness never so pronounced. This binary approach, which exasperates both the impact of accelerations as well as that of the most Groovy and cadenced sections, gives the disc a convincing dynamic and generally richer than that of the 2023 debut.
A job was therefore done on the expansion of the expressive range at the basis of music: a process that has also led to the insertion of unpublished ideas among the extreme aforementioned, such as the obvious influences at the Gates of a song such as the title-track. For the rest, the points of reference are those of all time, with the most scar and mocking entombeds at the top of the list, followed by disrupt, dysfear, trap them and all that group of bands, old or more modern, which certainly interpret hardcore punk with a particularly rough and metallic guitar sound.
Looking at the tracklist, it can be said that the first half is more lively and inspired than the second, in which the band seems to substantially reiterate the concepts expressed previously. However, also thanks to the short total duration, we cannot speak of a real drop in tension. The disc keeps a certain intensity and ends before you actually do too many questions about the effectiveness of certain episodes.
“Alive to no avail”, in essence, is the confirmation that industrial can know exactly what they want and how to get it. It is not a job that aspires to great revolutions, but, overall, the Songwriting of the Quintet manages to balance with a certain effective energy and a pinch of variety, confirming itself spontaneously and ultimately capable of carving out a space of respect within this particular crossover vein.