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░ ██ ██ Artist: Severed Crotch ██ ██
▓ █░░ ■█ Album: The Nature of Entropy █■ ░░█
■ █▓▀ █ Year: 2010 █ ▀▓█ ░
█ ▓ Rel. Date: 2011-05-15 ▓ █
▒ ▒ Genre: Death Metal ▒ ▒
█▄ ░ Label: Amputated Vein Records ░ ▄█
░ █▄ ░ Source: CD ░ ▄█
░ █▓ Type: Album ▓█ ░
▓ █ Quality: VBR, 44.1kHz, Joint Stereo █ ░ ▓
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█ Severed Crotch is a technical death metal group █
█ from Iceland. This is the group's debut █
█ full-length following several high profile demos █
█ in the last few years. They have been praised for █
█ their live performances and songwriting abilities █
█ thus far. █
█ After the instrumental opener, Precursor to █
█ Entropy, which is actually pretty good, Breeding █
█ Failure actually opens pretty mid-tempo. I had █
█ expected to be kicked in the teeth by the opening █
█ track, but instead, it opens a bit slower, and █
█ then goes all technical and crazy on you. As the █
█ album progresses, it becomes apparent that these █
█ guys don't sound the same as every other █
█ tech-death metal band, but are actually quite █
█ different. █
█ Style wise, I was surprised to hear this band █
█ mellow out on more than one occasion, and while █
█ none of them was very long, it was surprising none █
█ the less. There is also a major influence of what █
█ could either be sludge or doom on here, as the █
█ band slow down from blasting several times █
█ throughout the course of this record. Besides █
█ their technical demonstrations, there's also a █
█ heavy influence of brutal death metal on here as █
█ well, especially in the vocals, where they're low █
█ and guttural for the most part. With all these █
█ different, what might be, influences, this album █
█ is very diverse and sounds a lot different than █
█ their contemporaries within their scene. These █
█ guys have a good sense of when to get brutal and █
█ slow, when to inject some melody into their songs, █
█ when to get into a solid groove, and when to show █
█ off. █
█ It actually isn't until track seven, A Breath of █
█ Hatred, when the band go into full-on tech-death █
█ mode. When the band do go tech-death, it's █
█ actually interesting, because this entire record █
█ doesn't so much blast as much as it grinds, and █
█ not in the traditional sense, I just couldn't find █
█ the right word. This album shifts tempos a lot, █
█ from full-on blast-beats into slower more groovy █
█ stuff at the drop of a hat. █
█ Overall, I'd have to say that this is easily one █
█ of the most original sounding death metal albums █
█ to come out this year, along with that Stargazer █
█ album. This is extremely mature for a debut album, █
█ and hopefully the band can only get better here on █
█ in. If you like death metal, not deathcore, check █
█ this out. █
█ █
█ Highlights: Ecstasy In Death, XII, The Nature of █
█ Infidelity █
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░ 1. A Breath Hatred 4:48 ░
░ 2. Breeding Failure 4:55 ░
░ 3. Caught in Transcendence 6:23 ░
░ 4. Ecstasy in Death 3:39 ░
░ 5. Human Recipes 4:18 ░
░ 6. Precursor to Entropy 3:39 ░
░ 7. Soul Cremation 4:10 ░
░ 8. The Nature of Infidelity 6:02 ░
░ 9. XII 4:02 ░
░ 41:56 ░
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