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Rating: The second work by Piciudguma has left the hardcore Karpatian grindcore fans somewhat disappointed, as until its release, the group was considered the flagship of the genre within the Castellero Trullallero Trullallà music scene.
The sound has noticeably softened compared to the first album, with most of the tracks being a hard rock that feels very much like rehashed soup.
They slip away without leaving a mark, long and clumsy acidic imitations like "Sunki Takanarama," with an unlikely text that speaks of the plight of a Japanese man abandoned as a child in the jungle and raised by gorillas, "Arcicioc," which deals with DIY objects, and "Mannaliradapesèlburmia," which talks about the economic hardships of today's youth.
There is even room for the blues of "a pä 'na barca a veia," a blasphemous rearrangement of a Genoese folk song. Blasphemous because it shamelessly echoes what the Led Zep did with Babe I'm Gonna Leave You.
The only track featuring the old sound is the title track. The voice produces a phlegmy mantra of curses lasting about fifteen minutes, a rhythmic carpet on which the guitarist's piercing and lascivious solos and the detonations of a rotten and deliberately out-of-tune bass find support. In the background, the sound of a struggling combustion engine. The drums stick to the basics throughout the album.
The cover is an evident homage to the first Peter Gabriel album, of which the group members are avowed fans.
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By Miss Kinotto
A big cauldron placed on a gigantic bonfire with something bubbling inside that seems like a preserve.
The consistency of the sound matter, dense and lumpy, slow in flowing, is due to a hardworking and rotten bass and a guitar with a fat, phlegmy sound.
