Grime
Circle Of Molesters

Two years after "Deteriorate," the Triestine band Grime returns in 2015 with their third album titled "Circle Of Molesters."

After a tribal and Doom Metal-tinted intro of 3 minutes titled "Obscuration," they resume their corrosive and muddy Sludge progression, made even more extreme by an hyper-compressed and stunning production. "Get Immortal" is an unhealthy ride with dark and luciferous plots, while "Verge Of Wrath," with its sludge restarts, offers no respite to the listener with a lacerating screaming voice and a muddy and oppressive guitar noise, almost at the limits of Death Metal.

Following a guitar feedback, here comes "Decay In Hades" with its elephantine and demonic progression. The tempo becomes more pressing and rhythmic, and the riffs whistle in your ears so much they are bearers of sonic devastation. "Sulphurous Veins" has a twilight doom metal progression, the singer's monotone and alien voice adds decibels of magmatic saturation to the entire sound setup, seven scorching minutes of satanic Sludge Doom, bordering on the most unhealthy noise, and the stench of death has a pestilential and corrupted fetus.

"Accelerating Transition" is a four-and-a-half-minute bacchanal where the listener is swallowed and engulfed by the extreme distortions of the guitars and the sound wall that ascends to the rank of an annoying Sludge saturated with mud, larvae, and bones. "Salvation Come From Below" begins with a frantic and distorted bass riff with drum counterpoints that then make room for the violence of the guitars and the rhythm section; there is no salvation, there is no redemption for this infernal and malignant music.

The magma flows continuously as in the eighth and final track "Orgiastic Rite" (7 minutes) where the cannonades of the rhythm section and the machine-gun bursts of sludge mush are interminable, it seems like witnessing an esoteric and magical ritual, so violent, rotten, and uncompromising is the sound material. The end of "Orgiastic Rite" is sinister and gloomy with tormented and desecrated guitar feedbacks, a true sonic massacre that abruptly stops, declaring the end of this diabolical opus.

"Circle Of Molesters" is the rightful sequel to "Deteriorate," even more extreme and inclined to sonic destruction. Grime has condensed their masterpiece into 38 minutes, to be listened to and listened to again, all exalted by a cover where a demonic realm of perversion and aberration is photographed.