Grindcore driven with guitar riffs screaming from the fret board, sweating bullets as the drum kit goes ballistic at new warp speeds. As a severely pissed off voice yells out ground shaking, cynical diatribes about government control, regulation, individual rebellion, personal demons and the lost faith in humanity. This is Peace Was Never an Option, the new speed/aggression opus by Scotland’s death-metal melody makers Man Must Die on Lifeforce Records.
Ten songs, two instrumentals that pulverize from the first millisecond, slamming the listeners head into the speakers with hyper-speed blast beats, multi-complex riff, note patterns by Alan McFarland and one pissed off angry motherf- who’s got some serious sh- to talk about. Peace has all the needed and wanted ingredients for electric chair head-banging along with some well-placed clever guitar melody to counterbalance the constant sonic attack.
Congregation opens slowly with its instrumental invitation with backwards, background effects ending with a heavy guitar build up. The guitar frenzy and blast beat blitzkrieg start instantaneously on Hiding in Plain Sight with Joe McGlynn’s rapid-fire automation vocals spitting nails at a self-serving greed obsessed government, tearing your ear off, quickly destroying any preceding tranquility with malicious force.
Patriot yells, don’t bring knives to a gunfight. Don’t be a slave to the control of society. Machine gun drums with an aerial assault of guitar fire with some battle plan grooves strategically placed. The Hell I Fear has control of your mind. Free yourself from the shackles of self-limitation. Guitar melody played along-side catchy ‘sung’ yelling. Sectarian says get up and fight; don’t follow the sheep of war.
Second instrumental Dissolution strips away everything heavy while keeping an ominous mood with Egyptian like acoustic guitar melancholy echoing a sense of dread, reminding us of history’s evil dirty-secrets. Absence Makes the Hate Grow Stronger opens the disassembly plant with mechanical Fear Factory riffs joined by some melodic grind-slides making some technical death metal sound bluesy and buzzed. The cookie cutter, build by the numbers cut and paste, box and ship human copies waiting in line for their shot at 15 minutes of fame will go to any level and deviance to get it. Welcome to the world of glamour, fortune and self-destruction.
Antisocial Network’s lyrics and video is a voyeuristic playground for perverts, sadists and sick freaks of all kinds. There are over five million predators surfing the internet. All at a click through the camera’s eye 24 hours, seven days a week. Abuser Friendly features Sepultura/Soulfy singer/icon Max Cavalera singing about the cracked, tipped unbalanced scales of our blind lady of justice. The Day I Died is a brutally personal, slashed-open, exposed wound confession/memoir of childhood trauma and neglect. The child died long ago, buried in the memories of the past. The sins of the parents sewn into the offspring’s mind.
