Artist: Psychobolia
Title: Fisting You All
Type: Album
Label: Xtreem Music
A slightly strange and unorthodox start greets you as a subtle piano and narration is used instead. As the distortion in the intro increases you know your ears are in for a mashing, and once it starts it is a fairly predictable high velocity death metal massacre on the opener “Androgynous”. The band has no intention of hanging about as the warp speed snare slamming is maintained in the bands name sake track. The bass sound is a little thin which will always knock points off for me as it is the essence of death metal, making this border the fringes of the Decapitated sound (yes I don’t like their sound either).
The bands approach of short sharp frenetic riffing blasts works very well in a technical sense, whilst keeping the songs short gives the album a punchy, urgent edge. The leads are a touch high pitched especially on “Slaughter” making them tinny and marginally passionless. The guttural barking and alternate glass gargling screams work fine throughout the album though I prefer barks and growls. Each track flies by in flurry of vicious riffs that arrive one after another taking absolutely no prisoners whatsoever. With no actual standout tracks (except maybe “Severe Headfuck” as the track is so crushingly fast) and extremely short breaks between them, this could easily be a single 30 minute track. Overall I enjoyed the plethora of riffs and the battering drums, so anyone with fetish for a technical bludgeoning akin to Hate Eternal, Decapitated, Nile and Morbid Angel in that order will sincerely like this racket. Oh and the band are French and I deliberately left off one piece of info about the band that you should check out for yourself if you’re interested in hearing the band.
http://www.psychobolia.com
http://www.myspace.com/psychobolia
Martin Harris
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