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The intro to Cropment’s
“Spiral Of Violence” starts out with a mellow tone, but
it then erupts in to a heaping mass of death as soon as the main part
of this album kicks in. This CD is brutal death and grind with a touch
of thrash, maybe not what you would expect from a band hailing from
Switzerland. Lots of great elements are spread throughout the album,
if they were more condensed or consistent, these songs would grab
and shake you hard enough to cause internal bleeding. Incantation
and Deicide crossed with Cephalic Carnage would be a good example
of whom they sound like. It’s death metal with some of the madness
from grindcore. One thing that Cropment has that many bands in death
metal don’t take time to do anymore is to write lyrics that
actually have meaning. Lyrics dealing with social problems, aggression
and desires are subjects that many bands, just don’t deal with,
but fit in perfectly in the genre. Of the eleven punishing tracks
there were a quite a few that should wake you up like a punch to the
gut. The title track “Spiral of Violence” and “Hypnotic
Mass Suggestion” came out on top for me, with “Blood Innocence,”
“Atheistic Thoughts,” and “Nuclear Holocaust”
still hot enough to scald you. Over forty-six minutes of extreme death
metal, can you handle it? Rating: 71 |
