Electrocution

Electrocution

Psychonolatry

GoreGorecords

Release: 8 February 2019

Here and there, the album has some brief moments of melody in the guitar solos, but the meat and potatoes of it all is the approach of “chug’em and blast’em all from here to eternity” with death metal. Sometimes the mood slows down just a bit so that you can hear those nasty buck bass lines plucking; sometimes the chugging steps up to the plate and demands all the attention. Presiding over the glorification and exaltation of “modern death metal 2019” is the growling, a mostly low method of animalistic vociferation.

Repeated listens show some subtle details that are pretty cool. The guitar solos make more sense, the chugging becomes more contagious, and the hyperblasting is better understood. The album is not a retro or nostalgic style of death metal but rather the modern, clean-production that pushes the wall of sound as close as possible to the ears of the audience. The band does not want anybody complaining that the loudness is not loud enough. If it’s too loud, you will have to be the one to turn down the volume, not the band. It’s never too loud for this band! Open this door like you open the door in the January cold air in Minnesota: get ready for the blast that you are about to receive. Dedicated die-hard death metal fans of the loudest, fastest, most brutal forms of the genre should be the prime and preferred headbangers that will enjoy the album the most.

It's interesting just how melodic the band could be if they wanted to do it. Some of these solos are sweet and catchy, but just in case you are getting too sentimental, bang bang bang blast blast!!, and they are right back in the moshpit metal mode. They have the skills to go all melodic on you, but let's not get twisted, that's not this Italian band because look at their name: What is it? Do you see it? What is it? Exactly! You can't go sawft if you give this name to your band. You gotta live up to your name. Dive into this brutal blasting death metal and you will discover buckets and buckets, tons!, of fun. The blasting is awesome, the growling is hooray, the riffs are made for headbanging, the bass lines are so foine, and the solos are tasteful, compact and efficient. I have been listening to this album a whole lot and it just gets better and better and better. This album is seven foot tall and you can’t teach that! Rock out, amici and amiche, in low places!

electrocution.bandcamp.com/album/psychonolatry