Death metal powerhouse Dying Fetus return with their long-awaited new record "War Of Attrition". Quite some slight line-up changes (i.e. Duane Timlin behind drumkit, so excellent!!!) but nonetheless it doesn't affect the tightness and brutality of the latest offering at all. Masterminded by guitarist/vocalist John Gallagher and his hand picked kill-team, "War Of Attrition" advances the band's devastating assault and destroys everything in its path. Opening with "Homicidal retribution", the band makes pretty clear what they're about: brutal hyperspeed technical death metal with hardcore-esque breakdowns combined with thrash-influenced riffs, of course with the occasional yet typical synchronized guitar-tapping on both guitars and bass. While at "Stop At Nothing" the boundaries of speed were touched every now and then, the band proves to be capable of more on "War Of Attrition": faster and more aggressive seems to be the task John Gallagher gave his bandmates. Production-wise the new album makes a huge leap forward, a wall of sound belts out of the speakers with a machinegun-like-rattling put underneath it by the new drummer Duane Timlin (ex-Divine Empire, Broken Hope, Sarcophagus (US), Weltmacht, Forest Of Impaled, session for Krieg and Judas Iscariot). Everything sounds perfect. The machine-like perfection at such high speed probably leaves first time listeners thinking songs like "Parasites Of Catastrophe" are not even played by human, but completely done by computers... but fortunately it's not! An amazing album that will please a large number of extreme death/grind fans and will apply to math/core fans too. "War Of Attrition" reaches an altogether new and focused level of brutality for Dying Fetus and expands the legendary status of this renowned US death metal institution.
http://www.dyingfetus.com; fetus@dyingfetus.com
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Mark V. / 10
If there is anyone who doesn't know what kind of music Malevolent Creation plays then he should go and hang up himself immediately. Besides "In cold blood" album this band has never disappointed its fans with any album. All of them were a perfect continuation and improvement of their own unique style, distingushing especially in a specific guitar work. Eighth production by one of the main american stage ravagers brings us in every single track another portion of great music which turns dying and killing into a pure pleasure. Aggression, heaviness, amazing force - those words, although overused, are best to describe the spirit of "The Will to Kill". Easier then ever before can we also find some similarities to present Vader style. Those two bands were always interpreting death metal music in a similar way and of course this fact is definetely not a reason to speculate about loosing by Malevolents their own style. On "The Will to Kill" american quintet surely walks their own path and no doubt its gonna be like this forever. Once again, while talking about this band I have to appeal to all death art worhipers - this LP is a must!
http://www.malevolentcreation.cjb.net; http://www.arcticmusicgroup.com
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Olo / 10
