Italian thrash icons Electrocution return in 2019 with a loud, shredding vengeance releasing the deafening Psychonolatry. A massive musical onslaught containing 11 tracks that will annihilate any speakers and ears in proximity.
Spawned in the early ‘90s like many of their classic American contemporaries, they’ve toured their homeland, shaking stages and soil with gore-fiends Carcass, Motorhead and genre godfathers Death.
The current lineup features vocalist Mick Montaguti, Neil Grotti and Alessio Terzi on guitar, bassist Mat Lehmann, and drummer Vellacifer. They’ve made an album challenging, vicious and fun to play with an armory of musical violence to share.
Their first record Inside The Unreal earned the distinction of being the first international major label release by an Italian band. Though the band’s first run was short lived ending in ’97, years later they regrouped for the 20th Anniversary reissue of Inside. Their return came in 2014 with Metaphysincarnation, rubbing stage elbows with Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death, Dark Tranquillity, Fleshgod Apocalypse among other screamers and grinders.
Psychonolatry takes sound annihilation to Uber levels of decimation pummeling without mercy. Like a scrap yard coming to life, it’s a record that beats the shit out of the strings and sticks making them want to scream.
With moments of Death inspired guitar interplay and classic Sepultura raw energy, notes are bent, twisted, torn, shredded and left for dead, brutalized, and broken.
Guitars spray the pit with adrenaline, bludgeoning and redecorating with blood and bone with the speed and pace of kill shot bullets. They’ve created monuments of sound, chiseled from raw, graphic noise with unexpected elements and head-shredding heavy playing, slicing the senses with merciless riffs. Montaguti’s vocals seem tailor-made for the pits of the underworld and above with Vellacifer slamming hard enough to remove skin.
There’s morbid thought’s on “Hallucinatory Breed” with whiplash note interplay. A gripping chugger, caressing the ear like cast iron claws ready to rip head from neck. “Warped” is a multi-personality brain-pounder with guitars chipping away, separating sanity from each lobe. Guitar notes cascade, dwindling down into the emptiness.
Skin bubbling fret work fries on “Of Blood and Flesh” with blasting beats and brutality with battalion strength making strings beg for mercy. “Misanthropic Carnage” is predatory, playing dirty with extended fangs. Music with a flesh-ripping bloodlust, with foreboding end notes like a chained fence slowing closing as angry growls come from behind.
“Bologna” is the ‘slowest’ of the bunch with straining notes gnawing out the speakers with radioactive paranoia with notes retracting from skin in stained slow motion.”
Psychonolatry is a fun face rearranging experience from start to finish bringing Electrocution back to the forefront with a massive smash to the senses. Available February 9 on GoreGore Cords via Aural Music.
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