Geld : "Currency // Castration!"

Here is a lesson for those who work in PR / Marketing side of the music business. We try to dress up sounds with words, when being straight to the point might work better, than trying to make something into a brand marketed to a hip demographic. This band is part punk and park death metal. Proto death metal perhaps. You might even say the place where grind core and death metal met. There is a very basement feel to the recording quality, sometimes this overdriven chaos plays to their favor. The second song is where you hear the punk come into play. The vocals stay at a coarse bark. It is hard to separate where the hard core begins and the metal ends so grind core might be a good call. 

Did not realize they got this angry in Australia. The go in more of punk direction with "Clock Keeps Crawling".  They are explosive. The snarl of the vocals keeps the overall sound more uniform; the variations are more of a scream vs growling. In more of a punk fashion the bulk of the songs are under the three-minute mark. By the time we get to "the Fix is In" the clash and clamor of the feral punk begins to sound the same. Do they owe a great deal to bands like GISM? Most certainly. At almost three and a half minutes it's the longest song, but it jogs in one place. 

The 45 seconds of "Across a Broad Plain' is just a noise interlude for ambiance. "Hanging From a Rope" lets the bass lead and in doing so creates more of a punk feel. "Gas Corruption" is more of a hard-core spasm, that slashes out with it's raw metal aggression. "Success" finds the punk barking taking over the narrative as they rush through things, before breaking it down a little. "Secret Prison' is even more unhinged. This last track is just an ambient outro, that makes me wish they had used more atmosphere in their songs as it would have been much more interesting.I will give this album a 7.Oddly being released on Relapse.  

8.7