Necrodeath & Schizo
Mondocane - Projectone

"Mondo Cane": a series of cult documentaries depicting the evils and oddities of the planet inhabited by human beings. Mike Patton, as you well know, has publicly demonstrated his love for these films (the first chapter, I remind you all, dates back to '62), but some other musicians, before the eccentric leader of Faith No More and a thousand other bands, had the idea of paying a heartfelt tribute to these formidable reports on celluloid. We are talking about two bands from the extreme Italian scene: the Genoese Necrodeath and the Catanese Schizo. Ugly thugs, proponents of a violent and uncompromising thrash metal. The two factions of rowdy musicians decided to join forces, overcoming what were then debilitating geographical distances, to create an irreverent album aptly titled "Mondocane - Project One"!

Here, in addition to thrash, genres such as raw punk hardcore are called into play, the Negazione had already set the standard, but also elements capable of echoing forms of primordial death metal. We are in the distant 1989 and the extreme scene is already a consolidated reality.

Everything has a strong playful flavor as well as being outrageously irreverent, because individuals accustomed to dealing with macabre and grotesque themes, in such a context, seize the opportunity to vent all their genuine anger and their crude humor.

In the construction of the tracks, both the vocalists and the musicians belonging to the two indispensable names of Italian metal alternate.

The initial "Necroschizophrenia", already from the title, represents the union of intent between the Ligurian group and the Sicilian one. A crushing track, characterized by some blast beats on drums and vigorous screams.

"Violence Abuse?" and "Kill The Fetus" put the pedal to the metal to make the sonic violence even more brazen and rude.

"Fuck the U.S.L.", on the other hand, is a revised and corrected cover of the famous Exploited. I don't know why our heroes hated the Local Health Unit rather than the USA denigrated by the original authors, but I believe it is a case of healthy and bizarre madness. "Mario, Please Don't Cry", besides having a funny title, continues to move on earth-shaking hardcore scenarios.

There are other tracks worth mentioning, of course, but the best of the ten present here is, in my humble yet debatable opinion, "All Tomorrows Are Yesterdays". A good solid kick in the teeth.

Unfortunately, nothing followed this "Project One". Yet it is so beautiful to remember a masterpiece born in the years when heavy metal was no longer what it used to be, but also an underground reality that would indelibly mark the destinies of rock as a whole. And Italy, believe it or not, contributed to this development.

Long live Mondocane!