Brutality
Ruins of Humans

After more than a month and a half of writer's block, I resurface... but not too lively...

Another extremely dark period for me; as always in these frequent and bleak moments of my existence, it's Death Metal that comes to my rescue, to support and sustain me.

Narrating the events of one of the bands I love most in extreme and heavy metal: the Americans Brutality, who return to be heard at the beginning of 2013 with this EP of only two tracks. More than fifteen years after the release of the album In Mourning, here reviewed by my alter ego De...Marga...

I've never liked reunions, the return to the discography after too much time; but this Ruins of Humans represents the classic exception. And in truth, I had no doubts about Brutality's ability to bring out something crazy, magmatic, granitic, extremely solid.

Fourteen minutes of exhausting Death Metal; a continuous alternation of solos from the two guitars (at least eight can be counted in the two tracks) with endless riffs from the same six strings, powerful, atonal. An agonizing version halfway between Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse.

Recognizable from the very first distant notes of the guitars in the title track; like twilight My Dying Bride oozing blood from infected wounds.

Scott's vocal explosion brings the song's progress into territories very close to Brutal Death Metal; with instrumental control, a capacity to continually vary the song's progression, as in their best works of the nineties.

The out-of-control, asynchronous, broken drumming of that human octopus known as Jim: marking an "intubated" drum sound that has very few rivals among the hundreds of pure Death Metal bands I've listened to in my over thirty-year career as a follower of this musical genre.

The eight minutes of "Ruins of Humans" pass the baton to the equally mephistophelian "Irreversibly Broken". A mid-tempo of defacing beauty; a cemetery-like journey that unfolds over six minutes. Relentless witnesses of an extremism that will never cease to fascinate me.

The final guitar solo lasts an eternity... finally leaving space for Scott's last spasmodic screams... leaving one with a melted brain...

In 2016, they will finally release the new full album Sea of Ignorance... I will have time, to your sure joy, to talk about it perhaps one day not too far away.

Diabolos Rising 666.