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Rating: PNEUMATIC SLAUGHTER!!!
The cover: look at that cover. Does it make you laugh? Does it seem like a funny Malevich-style vignette to you, depicting two anthropomorphized paintings playing at fighting? Doesn't it perhaps make you... shiver? Human beings are faceless beasts, the bigger one overpowers the weaker; the law of suffering is universal, wherever a pierced sun shines. Good morning!
This is what I propose to you today: the terrifying "Pneumatic Slaughter" by Fear of God. Very little information about the group online: they once had a website, but it seems to have disappeared and now, typing their moniker, one finds only bigoted and withered nonsense. Anyway: Swiss, land of pioneers (UH!); among the first to merge Hardcore with Metal and Noise creating a demonic Grindcore, with few equals. The album was originally recorded live - very poorly, but it's better that way - in 1988, when the group was about to end a career that lasted only two years but was marked by a certain intensity.
Not even ten minutes for eleven tracks that constitute a single lucid, sadistic, and brutal delirium, which, after twenty seconds of illusory calm, smashes everything like a steamroller. On the microphone, we have Erich Keller, a big guy with shredded vocal cords, a raw voice like few others, inconceivable for the time, spewing insults and curses on everything and everyone. Saturated, ungainly, noise guitars that sound like they were recorded in a centrifuge. The rhythm section does the rest, bombarding the audience with genuine hailstones of violence that occasionally subsides, but only to intensify the assault when operations resume. The titles: "A Life in Rigorism," "Controlled by Fear," "Under the Chainsaw." And in the end, for those who have the strength to endure this thousand-mile-an-hour beating, we return to the medieval-apocalyptic sound that opened the album. A damn never-ending circle.
So annihilating and brutal that it almost makes Napalm Death's "Scum" seem like an album to whistle along with an ice cream in hand.
A comet, the Fear of God, which, however, laid very solid foundations for the nascent global Grindcore scene, besides being one of the very first Noisecore groups. In my opinion, nobody will be able to reach their fierce wickedness.
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