Soilent Green
Confrontation

When you come home dead tired and mad as hell from work, when your mom (or even worse your wife) reminds you to be careful because she recently dusted every square inch of the living room, when your partner nags you once again with her usual demands, when the temptation would be to grab a machete and silence those who made your day unbearable, just put Soilent Green in the hi-fi and indulge in the distillate of violence from this American combo. At this point, the paths that will unfold before your eyes are essentially two: either pharmaceutical companies will stop producing sedatives since the record will serve as the best substitute for them (meaning it will help relieve tension and keep you from unnecessary time behind bars), or a dense and prolonged trail of blood will stain the stairs of your apartment building, caused by the traces left by the aforementioned machete.

''Confrontation'' saw the light in 2005, in the wake of a series of misfortunes and tragedies (the most severe of which was undoubtedly the death of bassist Scott Williams) that halted the Louisiana band’s activities for 4 years, following convincing and fierce albums such as ''Sewn Mouth Secrets'' and ''A Deleted Symphony For The Beaten Down''. The guys try to chase away the dark demons, channeling all their anger and frustration into music, gifting us almost an hour of intense emotions. I’m talking about the usual incandescent lava flow, a substantial and refined mixture of Grind, Sludge, Hardcore, and Blues-leaning riffs, intense and perverse in the same manner. Their sound can be described as a hypothetical midway meeting between “sludge” bands like Crowbar and Eyehategod, extreme imagery akin to Napalm Death, and Southern culture, meaning: all part of the same family, all with the same vice of drinking liters of whiskey and smoking whole fields of marijuana in New Orleans. 

The initial ''Leaves of Three'' leaves no room for doubt: power and robust guitars, violent blast beats, and incredible physicality in the arrangements. The monotone and frustrated tone of the leader, Ben Falgoust, complements the hardcore aridity of the rhythm section, while the guitar work completely expands now towards Sabbathian destinations (''Theory of Pride in Tragedy'' and ''Pretty Smiles & Shattered Teeth'') now towards unpredictable and versatile instrumental interludes: the military march percussion of ''Southern Spirit Suite'', the Jazz touch of ''Liquid & Cigarettes'', or even the psychedelic bass solo in ''Paper Cut''. Admirable is the mastery of our guys in mixing the continuous time changes within the 15 proposed tracks: the beauty lies in reaching the end of each single episode to savor the rot completely; then when the country of ''Another Cheap Brand of Luck'' confronts us (quickly transforming into ''This Glass House of Broken Words''), it's impossible not to draw parallels between Soilent Green and the bluesy Pantera of ''Far Beyond Driven'' and the crushing ''The Great Southern Trendkill'', while savoring a salvific, intoxicating scent of a corpse in an advanced state of decomposition.

''Against the wear and tear of modern life''.