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Grindcore, a genre considered by many as niche, unapproachable, a subgenre... "ugh... that noisy mush with 50 songs per CD of ten seconds each" some claim, "the most massive and badass genre on earth" others argue.
Both theories are probably valid; when this masterpiece is released, Napalm Death and Carcass are already an institution, and Dillinger Escape Plan are probably in embryonic stage... thus here are Brutal Truth acting as a logical bridge between the two generations, and the step is as obvious as it is ingenious.
This "Need to Control" is as powerful, brutal, and well-played as it gets, in a spiral of slow and hefty rhythms, heart-pounding accelerations, and so much anger to spit into those damn microphones. There are countless episodes in here to be delivered to history; from start to finish, they reach unexplored shores for the genre: punk, thrash, death, crust, grind, and industrial nuances with alarming ease and familiarity, the vocal exchanges between Sharp and Lilker play on the guttural power of the former and the acidity of the latter.
Compactness is the watchword for Brutal Truth: a volcano that explodes in your face, without too many compromises.
Do you want the titles of the most representative tracks?? here they are: "Black Door Mine", "Godplayer", "Judgement", "I See Red" to rip your head off; "Collapse", "Ordinary Madness", "Media Blitz", "Choices of New Generation" perhaps to catch your breath... now that I've warned you, go ahead and hurt yourself, and then don't say I didn't warn you!
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Black Door Mine (01:43)
[extra throat noise by Bill Yurkiewicz (EXIT-13) courtesy of Relapse Records]
Idle and silent
Idle and silent
Idle and silent
Burn alone
From time to time one can find
Reason enought to draw the line
Complacency charmes our world's decline
Progress is treason defined
Will you see beyond your black door mine
04 Godplayer (04:08)
[Brutal Truth]
[digerdoo handled by Andy Haas]
Dilution of pain
Bleed incompetent reign
Life throught purity
Humanity maintained
It brings in hope of precious life
Answers agony divine
Push ill-thoughts
Of humanities decline
Finally, system feeds, travesties
Chokes life's inner sancity
Skeptically, you'll see,
Their lives ain't worth a dime
In the end, you and I will never see
Look as one one, upon this blasphemy
If I was you, I'd adjust my sensitivity
Blame or fault, question rationality
In the end, you and I will never see
Pain is small defy your own mortality
Run again, answers will be the same
Open your eyes and see it for what it is
Corporate science destroying lives in the benefit of none
Liberation from the foolish
Cash in cost, rhyme or reason ... no!
07 Bite the Hand (02:08)
[Brutal Truth]
Point down on me
As if you seek
Look to yourself
Think for yourself
For what's to be
Will always be
Why can't you see
Life creates its own decision
Why point at me?
Just say what you got to say
Judging your actions
Conditioned fools will always... pay
12 Choice of a New Generation (02:00)
Reformation at hand
Our time to stand
Misconceptions are a thing of the past
Enslaved minds give birth to a new generation
Your generation
The myth, a fiction of what you will believe
Lies, corruption, fininaial catastrophe
Legality, the only way
Progressive hemp-minded, call for legality
Ignorant and fearful, rejecting on 13
Their foolish lies will break our backs beyond humanity
Legality the only way
14 Displacement (04:16)
[Brutal Truth]
No more...
Blind falsity
Tears left to see
Fear left in me
Pain inside me head
No more...
Corporate casualities
Progress, myths and lies
Would you, call upon a book of lies
Blame aside, watch you try and rationalize
Push walls to the threshold of pain
Genetics unmatched in the inhuman acts of capitalist fucks
Cashing grants, the majority obvious to pain and suffering,
Would you, fall from grace, desensitize
Crawl inside socially fed mass genocide
Would you, face the truth or capitalize
Falsify, bloodshot cracks in visions eye
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By NewDayRising
The group is incredibly tight, an impressive sonic flow for its power, capable of flattening the listener.
'Need To Control' launches fragments of the past, think Hardcore, Grind, Death, and launches them at breakneck speed on its own track.
