play fast or play faster: Scalpel (U.S.)

Scalpel (U.S.): “Sorrow and Skin” (Sevared Records)

Scalpel disdains talk of playing “slow, with feeling.” Forget slow. Their attitude is: play fast, blast, get tendonitis playing these riffs, chug like there’s no tomorrow and go for broke on the completely indecipherable super low growling. The dexterity and stamina involved in this technical, blasting monstrosity has plenty of catchy parts, but this music sounds like a magically toxic garbage disposal. But if you listen carefully, you will hear melodies... at high speeds.

Recommended for listeners into…you know it!...classic Suffocation and Cryptosy and anything überbröötalz. What songs do I remember? I remember a huge blasting blur. Songs? What songs? It’s not music to sing along to. This is technical death metal and the objective is high speed and lots of heaviness.

Scalpel makes Suffocation sound melodic and slow. What will the kids think of next? Gosh, when we are referring to Suffocation as melodic, I think you know that the crazies have been let out of their cages. www.scalpel.us