Intros are simply for pussies, who the hell needs them? Take a leaf out of Kill Tech’s book, go in with a massive eight second bellow with drums and guitar belting out along with it. These Norwegians started out in a punk band called Blue Monday and were influenced by the normal yawn-some metal meat and potato heads like Pantera, Lamb Of God and Machine Head etc. Luckily something must have happened along the way (perhaps the many other great bands in their own country rubbed off on them) and Kill Tech were born with this album ‘Inappropriate.’ Actually the ‘album’ word is exactly that as this is only just over 20 mins long and seven tracks so it’s more like half an album really. Still that should not put you off as this is good stuff.
After the aforementioned meaty start ‘Precautions’ carries on with juggernaut heavy riffs and solid hoary vocals. It is catchy and sounds neither Norwegian or American particularly but it is metal through and through whatever influences have come to the party. Good melody and hooks galore have this opener latched in your head but it is the title track that had a real familiarity to me. I realised that unintentionally (well I’m guessing so) the central rampant melody reminds of Dead Kennedy’s classic ‘Chemical Warfare’ just a lot more thrashy a version. It’s on their MySpace so have a listen and see if you agree. ‘Path Of Destruction’ is as suggests a brutal whirlwind of guitar and bass tearing up trees but getting time to calm and throw in a solo along the way. There is a blackened Zyklon sort of scythe to the guitars as we fly into ‘Simple Life Is Complicated’ but this goes again for a more modern metal sheen than anything resembling black metal really although there are times the sort of heaviosity of a band like Red Harvest is not that far away. They do go and give ‘Ground Zero’ its own intro a bit of a ballad before the brutality and when that hits it gives it out with a rollicking good knockout blow.
I am guessing this is pretty much self released, Toetagger Prod has not been located although Toetag Pictures is something this writer is well versed in. As for Kill Tech this is a good release and hopefully I will hear more from them in the future with a longer album, which these tracks are definitely a basis for.
http://www.myspace.com/killtech1
