Defigurement : " Endbryo"

This band, featuring members of Malignancy and Murder Construct, blasts out some death metal-influenced grindcore that still manages to cram some songwriting into these bursts of sound. Like any band dealing in this kind of sonic mischief, you have to be careful that you do not get caught up in the spastic energy and forget to make something worth listening to. The first three songs maintain a balance until the fourth song, when the need for speed causes them to get carried away. At two minutes and thirty-seven seconds, "Wounded Landscape" is the length of a normal song. It is an exercise in marginally experimental, somewhat chaotic death metal. But it works for what it is. 

They pour the speed back on for "Alteregomaniac," and aside from more deliberate vocals, the results are less impressive than the previous song. But better than what most grind-core bands do in less than a minute. There is more of a thrash  feel to "Humanity in Autumn" that works before going into the darker weirdness. "Her Knowing Collapse' blends the more feral aspects of hardcore with a blackened feel. "Godtopsy" is almost three minutes, which allows a brooding atmosphere to be cast over it. 

"We Are The Worst" finds the drummer proving his place behind the kit, and while it is a more fully realized song than some, it does not connect with me like some of the songs do. They bring more of a blasting style of death metal for "Love is Atrophy.". They circle this sonic zip-code for the rest of the album. Their last song carries some jazzy nuance, but nothing all that catchy.  I will give this album an 8,it's more grindcore-influenced death metal than not, but they were having fun making something that is fun to listen to, so it was a success. 

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