There is little in the way of subtlety with AOAA as the band sends every possible crushing breakdown combination from every conceivable direction. Everything is tuned as low as possible so that we lowly humans can just decipher what the hell the racket is. “Buried In A Bad Rep” has a brutalizing sound, something the band captures live with terrifying ease. The pace chops and changes between a crude sludge bombardment and scathing half blasts, all of which is bolstered by a monstrous vocal butchery.
Into “Reznov” and here we are greeted with hyper snare blasting with macho gang chanted vocal distortions. The sound really is crushingly heavy and even that is an understatement of adjectives here. The death metal elite generally despise this style of down tuned thuggery and for good reason as the formulaic breakdown riffing is predictable but again for good reason when you have bass and drum hungry teenagers requiring a fix for their wind-milling antics and hand waving gesturing in the live environment. Again the gang chants are added for good live encounters as I can see it now, drain pipe trousered fringe core bouncing over the walls of testosterone at the front just to get a chance to scream into the mic while their girlfriends look on in admiration at how tough it all is.
The title track sees a slight shift into sludge realms with a crunching bass back drop. The double bass filters through with the rabid Alsatian vocalising adding extra beastliness to the proceedings. Into “Stage Breaker” (I wonder what this could be about) and the deep cavernous riff is monstrous and is sure to be a crowd pleaser, especially with the sweet little chants of ‘Fuck You’ and their hardcore attitude. The cover choice is appropriate being Machine Head’s “Ten Ton Hammer” being an appropriate moment to tell the fans where you came from originally. Nothing special overall but if you’re into deathcore then this will fix you easily.
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Martin Harris
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