Review Summary: The Partisan Turbine breaks some barriers by placing their heavy breakdowns into some very technical death metal.
I can say, in my music collection, this is the heaviest, fastest and most ridiculous album I have. The speed of The Partisan Turbine is just unbelievable. If you go to YouTube, you can search up videos of the drummer and you will be mesmerized. The intensity of this band will get you. It pummels you with a mixture of growls, high pitched shrieks(I can't even call them screams)and what most of the album is, squeals.
For people who dislike pig squeals, I recommend staying away from this album, because it's full of them. The brutality level though, adding all shredding instruments together, is amazing. It's full of breakdowns, which if you'd want to label this band grind, could possibly take away from the entire grindcore aspect of it. Now, people are touchy about what is labeled grindcore, what is labeled death metal, and even metalcore is a touchy subject now. So, I'm just going to label this album insane.
For one, all tracks are very short, with it coming in with just 14 minutes in 9 tracks, minus
Vaginal Secretion, which is just a no-sound track after about a minute and 40 seconds before the song ends, comes in with Howard Dean's well known quote of "Not only are we going to New Hampshire ... we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona and North Dakota and New Mexico, and we're going to California and Texas and New York. And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan. And then we're going to Washington, D.C. To take back the White House. Yeah!"
The vocals are VERY hard to follow along with, as most of it you will not understand...although I'm not 100% sure any of you would want to even look at the lyrics in the first place. I would consider this a chuggy grind album. The standout track in this is most definetly 'Inertia' having the most diversity throughout the album. It goes from pummeling blast beats to a breakdown where all 3 vocal ranges are mixed and you can tell the most difference between them.
This album is not for everyone, but for you grind fanatics, you just MAY enjoy this album.
It is heavy, loud, and will hit you like a ton of bricks.
