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artist: Nuclear Tomb
title: Offer Your Life
year: 2022
genre: Thrash Metal
type: EP
label: Independent
language: English
rel. date: 2022-07-14
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:15:31
size: 35.6 MiB / 4 tracks
rip date: 2026-06-12
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/zk7wbsdlppx7b
tracklist:
01. Offer Your Life 2:56
02. ...And the Lamps Expire 4:03
03. Human Error 4:18
04. This Grand Carcass 4:15
release notes:
This Baltimore, Maryland-based quartet - which formed over ten years ago
- dabbles in a rather abrasive and at times progressive thrash style
which is laced with a death metal coating. The combo sits somewhere
between Voivod and Pestilence.
Offer Your Life offers good, often raw, material with some intriguing
passages and technical segments. Vocalist Michael Brown (who also plays
guitar) has a gruff tone, but he doesn't care to dominate proceedings.
Instead, the outfit excels more so in the abrasive, and at times jarring
guitar tone which enables the sound to flit effortlessly between a
Coroner-style of grey, melancholic wisdom to a slightly harsher,
primordial streak whereby tracks such as '...And The Lamps Expire'
unravel like gloomy, suspenseful black / death grimness.
The only real hindrance here is the production, because although I love
raw-sounding metal I feel that each instrument could do with a real
boost. When the faster, aggressive passages emerge it does have a strong
demo feel and the guys really deserve more because there's a lot going on
that you could easily lose in that lo-fi bombardment.
It's not bewilderingly complex extreme metal but the guys certainly
aren't afraid to experiment with industrialised textures and scarring
dissonance. This is particularly exhibited on the aforementioned '...And
The Lamps Expire' which really takes the band into cosmic regions, and
where that primitive Voivod energy fuses well with a thrashier vibe like,
say, Pestilence but thankfully not as jazzy. I'd like to hear the bass
more because when Amelia Morris is able to escape the tangled mesh it
really does have a gnarly drive, as does the excellent percussion of JD
Lookabill.
As musicians, these guys have their thinking caps on. There's some punky
zaniness with 'Human Error', and then some swirling axe work too mixed
with that Coroner-styled discolouration, but overall this is very much a
death / thrash affair with interesting corners to explore while remaining
spiky and energetic.