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"Bastardiser" Knut |
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"Bastardiser," the first U.S. appearance from Swiss slashers, Knut, (and here we are only a few minutes in and already I've misspelled the name into something completely, well, wrong… subconsciously of course!) The sound falls right in with the latest legion of Hard-Core infused Techno-aggressive, Emo-Core fantasizers built on rage, reason and relentless noise-call it "Noise-Core" for that matter, it's in vogue, but takes a sudden turn for the worse just when ya got 'em pegged-the riffs are pure razor, and a few of the "pissing" variety I'm sure… "Bastardiser" first hit the European market back in '98 so these guys have already logged some serious murder charges over the past few years, only now do they make their split to a safe American haven with a growing populous sure to welcome 'em with open arms, if not firearms. Knut's done some time with the likes of Neurosis-who's musical style is yet to have been determined, Converge, Botch… your similar brood of blood soaked "bastards" who fight the holy war through extreme measures of nihilistic noise and punishing production room techs who are only too lucky to escape with their heads in their hand by the time the carnage is over. Modernized Hard-Core, heavy on the "High-Low" as one of their song titles goes-worth mentioning, and we'll explore a bit of lyric here since any attempt at so doing with the ear alone proves instantly futile- "You pulled
my trigger sanity is unreal change the course to run and then of course the chorus? Well it all seems to make sense
in the grand seismic scheme of things-vocally there's a lot of Propain
and Meskil's throaty roar, but then again just about any garbled scream
will "Merge" is the best of the bunch mainly because it's got a memorable groove to it in that it can't help but stand out-and again I like the lyrics which either get lost in the translation or somehow make sense albeit in a broken link in the chain sort of way and "Wiped Out" comes away in a near whisper compared to the previous, melodically dark, almost ambient, light vocal matter… "Bastardiser's" not
going to creep up on anyone but will appeal to a narrow but growing scope
of the Relapse or Revelation records' faithful into the modern form of
angst and all out war nerve. Released by Hydra Head Records Review by Vinnie Apicella [va85@columbia.edu] |