Album Type: Full Length
Date Released:
17/11/2016
Label: Independent
“The Liar & the Saint” can be
summed as follows; if you have any kind of interest in grindcore / extreme
metal / death metal / hardcore whatever you want to call it, you cannot afford
to miss out on this. Don't even debate investing in this. Just get it. This is
a Future classic.
“The Liar &
The Saint” DD//LP track listing:
1).
Release
2).
One Hundred Days
3).
Punish
4).
Take All The Heads of The People, And Hang Them Up Before The Lord Against The
Sun
5).
Dysphoria
6).
Oderint Dum Metuant
7).
Pathetic
8).
Soul Deceiver
9).
Choke
10).
The Last Monument
11).
Heaven And The Eternity Of Tears (Part I)
12).
Heaven And The Eternity Of Tears (Part II)
The Review:
So
I recently went to see Wormrot. Having been impressed with their
recorded output I was looking forward to it, but not expecting much. In the
event they handed my ass to me. I now fully understand and appreciate this
magnificent force of brutalising destruction and consequently went back to
their albums with a newfound appreciation.
It
had been a while since I encountered an act which came close to the first time
I saw Nasum,
or heard Pig
Destroyer. It would be unreasonable to expect to see such acts every
few years. Two days later I saw Let It Die who pretty much stood up to Wormrot.
That I had encountered another act with that same sense of reckless aggression,
that understands the need to go all out with no consideration for melody, but
instead the focus on pure adrenaline. That an act can be almost mindlessly and
needlessly brutal to give you hope for the genre. So I thought it would be
advisable to purchase their latest album, “The Liar & The Saint”.
This
particular form of grind is interspersed with groove orientated riffs, giving
it some much needed variety. Speed and noise is all well and good, but mixing
it up proves more effective as displayed to great effect in the appropriately
named “Punish”, which features Weekend Nachos John Hoffman, as if further
endorsement were needed.
Highlights
include “Soul Deceiver” and “Oderint Dum Metuant” which starts
with a nice doomy sludge intro before flying off into discordant crust and then
a stomping Nasum
/ Nails
hybrid section. The ending is simply aural destruction. Elsewhere there is
plenty of dischordant tremolo picking, blast beats, all out noise and general
riotousness.
In
places it comes across like a death metal inflected Rotten Sound with slight hints of acts such as Nails. The dynamics shift nicely
between speeds so it never gets repetitive and the more chunky sections give an
oppressive sense of disgust and sludgy nihilism when needed.
“The Liar &
the Saint”
can be summed as follows; if you have any kind of interest in grindcore /
extreme metal / death metal / hardcore whatever you want to call it, you cannot
afford to miss out on this. Don't even debate investing in this. Just get it. This
is a Future classic.
“The Liar
& The Saint”
is available here
Band info: bandcamp || facebook
