Band: Amoclen Title: Diagnosis: Grindcore Genre: Grindcore Time: 20.52 min Release Date: May 2018 Rating: 92/100
"Diagnosis: Grindcore": a title that says already very much about the second album of these 4 breackneck speed lovers called Amoclen. Coming from Czech Republic, Amoclen were born in 2006 and, two years later, had the honour to release a split along with Agathocles (a band whose absurd prolificity remain, for me, an absolute mistery!). Instead, in 2011 they managed to release their first album, "Cymbalta", and, after 7 years of discographic silence, they are back to infest our minds with a new auditory torture whose (new and old) tracks are (almost) all titled after a medicine. But it's a very very pleasant auditory torture, I must say!
2 days ago I reviewed another Czech grindcore band, Top Sekret but, said frankly, they aren't so violent and intense for my insatiable ears. Instead, Amoclen completely satisfy my thirst for the pure aggression because they play a very ferocius grindcore worthy to be into the Italian grindcore/power violence festival named as Go! Fest!
Specifically, we're talking about a grindcore played not only with notable technical skills but also through a great dynamicity and inventiveness. So you have to be bombarded by a creative drummer that spew forth a colossal and killing series of different blast-beats; a vocal department that attack the listeners from everywhere by using various ripping vocals so to range from hysterical and acute screams to cavemen growls; an excellent riffwork that see, among the others, severe riffs as well more noisy and dissonant solutions; and by a bunch of different influences, mainly coming from death metal and hardcore punk. And don't forget that, within the 14 tracks of the album (included "Intro" and "Intermezzo"), there is a completely absurd cover titled "At je hudba tvuj lek", in which Amoclen, very courageously, have made unrecognizable a...pop song originally released by the Czech pop band Lunetic! Believe me that this cover, that contains hard rock passages and also some crying vocals, grind parts and a hallucinated finale, is so genius that it's surely better than the original!
Intensity. This is the only right word to describe, in extreme synthesis, this grindcore masterpiece, that's perfect for the fans of bands like Chiens, Neid and Nails. "Diagnosis: Grindcore", released by Defense Records along with Maximed Records, is full of amazing numbers, and the nicer thing is that it gives pure memorable intensity also in the end of the tracklist thanks to songs like "Seretide" and "Cymbalta". The only (veeery relative) "problem" is about the booklet since it is entirely written in Czech, so I don't understand a single word of the lyrics (curiously, there are only the lyrics of 7 songs, and I'm wondering why...) and even the spoken speeches, that you'll find here and there in the album, are in Czech. Said all this shit, Amoclen will participate in the 6th edition of a DIY HC/grindcore festival called "Gore Boys Party" which is scheduled in Prague on 20th October 2018, so don't miss this appointment if you have the opportunity. As last words, I have suggested just few hours ago Amoclen to the organizers of the Go! Fest since I would like to mosh a fukken lot in front of these crazy Czech lunatics directly in my city, Rome!
P.S.: now it's a tradition, so thanks again to Mythrone Promotion to sending me also this AMAZING album in its physical CD version!
P.S. 2: above there is the video that the band made for the song "Haldol".
No comments:
Post a Comment