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OBNOXIOUS YOUTH - Duration: 00:36:13
- Available from: 10/18/2024
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Svart Records
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Third album in about twenty years for this Scandinavian combo, part Swedish and part Finnish: the band has in fact been active since 2005, and hadn't released a full-length since 2017.
The proposed genre is quite varied, ranging from a very full-bodied heavy speed metal, but it doesn't disdain to delve into a handful of other sectors: perhaps this is precisely the characteristic that catches the ear most when listening to ” Burning Savage”, a sort of anarchy that makes us move from a proto-black metal à la Venom to punk-like agonies derived from Discharge or the very first Hellacopters, up to melodic moments of the NWOBHM school or, again, purely doom passages as in “Torrents Of Black Blood”.
Let's therefore say that the attitude and calm with which Obnoxious Youth release their works give us the impression (personal, we admit) of a project created more to entertain its members than to pursue a real musical career; we follow a restless path crossed by this very punk speed metal, tinged with black hues, which knows how to hit (thanks to deadly songs like “Ultra Death” or the title track).
Credit must be given to the guys who know how to do their job very well: riffing and soloing on the piece (on one of the two guitars, moreover, the former guitarist of Morbus Chron – and half-brother of Nicke Andersson – Edvin Aftonfalk, here with the glorious stage name 'Shit'), a fresh writing in the re-elaboration of stylistic features that trace the tradition without ever smelling of mothballs, but which, on the contrary, manage to re-elaborate extreme heavy metal structures with the attitude of the fan even before that of the musician.
Of course, the kids often and willingly play with the listener: they do it with titles like “Bitchkrieg”, “Black Magic Whore”, “Omega Therion”, with an intro and an outro that seem like the titles of horror or detective films , with the aforementioned habit of going and putting his beak on different genres of heavy metal, sometimes even having fun playing a raucous version of Judas Priest from the first albums in “Ethereal Termination”, quoting any band of the time with a riffing heartbroken but very tasty.
In short, they don't really take themselves seriously, it would seem, and we can't even look at them too austerely: a record like this really has few defects, but we would never feel like recommending it to everyone, given the ease with which it passes by from one register to another without too much subtlety and – deep down – feeling like a good-natured mockery. But it hits hard, all right.
We will be happy to be present if they play live in our area. Nice and capable, and sometimes this should really be enough.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
