Title: Passengers of the Void
Genre: Grindcore
Time: 16.58 min
Release Date: 12th October 2018
Rating: 70/100
Nowadays it's a inevitable thing! More and more old bands are reforming after many years of silence. It seem that Selfmadegod Records loves to support bands of this kind, as exemplified recently on these pages with the mighty Psychoneurosis. But today there is another example thanks to My Minds Mine, a Dutch grindcore band whose psychotic "campaign for musical destruction" started in 1995. Dead in 2002 after releasing two very short full-lenght albums and some splits in according to the purest grindcore tradition (no splits with Agathocles, and this is really strange!), My Minds Mine are back in 2015. After their return, they released two splits with Suffering Quota and Sick of Stupidity, and, then, it was time to give a violent birth to the comeback album: "Passengers of the Void". Now cover your fukken ears if you don't want to be deaf for the rest of your life!
Only 17 minutes for 14 songs. In other words: a pure destruction! This because My Minds Mine plays a sanguinary and savage ultra-fast grindcore that's truly basic in its classic formula: spastic screams alternated with doglike growls, chainsaw guitars with no traces of lead guitar parts, a demented drummer that destroys his kit in every track by going through 666 bpm and a little less, numbers that last often 50 seconds, and no contaminations with other genres, except for hardcore punk as well death metal, as it's obvious for grindcore. So, no bullshits, this is only pure destruction in the sign of the purest grindcore!
Almost useless to say, in this album the variations are very few. For example, you can count the mid/slow tempos in a single hand since they are mostly present in the tryptych "Cocoon of Conform"/"(They Rather) See Us Dead"/"Deceptive Attitude". You can find another interesting variation in "The Promised Resurrection", that contains some more catchy riffs. In addition, just at the end, My Minds Mine try to offer a number longer than the usual 90 seconds like "Faceless Plague". More specifically, this is a 3-minute "tour de force" in which there is a more death metal-oriented riffing as well a more dynamic structure incredibly full of mid-tempos like never before!
In brief, if you want grindcore, grindcore and only grindcore, well, I think that My Minds Mine are a perfect dish for you, served by 4 old guys that are know what they are doing. But, sincerely, I am not crazy about "Passengers of the Void". I mean, after a while, it's too predictable and has no real surprises able to make memorable the various tracks. But, at the contrary, My Minds Mine compensate these flaws with an approach so furious to be truly incredible and, surely, moshing in front of them must be a serious experience as it should be. And speaking about gigs in which you can mosh like damned men, the band is planning in these days some gigs (as you can see in your left) but, so far, no show in Italy is at sight. Fuck, I hope that some organizers will invite them in my country and, possibly, in Rome!Tracklist:
1 - Aftermath
2 - Hate Formation
3 - Slave Abuse
4 - The Promised Resurrection
5 - Passenger of the Void
6 - Cocoon of Conform
7 - (They Rather) See Us Dead
8 - Deceptive Attitude
9 - War Corrosion
10 - Nothing but Teeth
11 - Empty Carcass
12 - The Omnipotent God
13 - Rot Away
14 - Faceless Plague
Line-up:
Rosco - vocals
Shantia - guitars/vocals
Bert - bass
Ragnar - drums
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