Røt
The Blackest Pill

Without even wanting to, while chatting with Simone (the guitarist/drummer/producer of the band), he decided to hand me their latest effort, namely "the blackest pill," whose E.P. "No hope" I had reviewed more than a year and a half ago.

This latest work is the extreme evolution of those influences that were only hinted at on the first record. If initially, they leaned towards a Downtempo Deathcore of raw violence with (almost) no compromise where human anger was the crucial point of the record, this time we find ourselves in an infernal chaos where everything is more thought-out and less focused on 'in your face' violence. It sounds evil and oppressive ("mars omnia solvit") and perfectly alternates moments of madness or total delirium ("Depression turns into violence," "The misanthropic manifesto," "New age terrorism") thanks especially to the inhuman vocals of the singer Giovanni (there are moments when it seems he is literally screaming at the top of his lungs) who delivers his acid test here. The clean singing is the biggest novelty of this record and fits perfectly within the structure of the tracks, it doesn’t come across as cloying and adequately highlights the dense and sulfurous atmospheres.

The instrumental segment is, as always, devastating, proving very personal and much less indebted to the genre of reference (where inspirations from groups like Black Tongue, Yuth Forever, and Humanity’s Last Breath are heard), supported by a powerful and massive production that, however, doesn’t sound too plastic or anonymous like many groups attempting a similar approach.

In conclusion, "The blackest pill" has, for me, reaffirmed this band as one of the Italian acts to keep an eye on. If you want to listen to 48 minutes of human negativity turned into music, this record might be for you.