Review Summary: Vitrifier's second album delivers twenty sub-minute deathgrind tracks that pair surgically precise brutality with absurdist humor. The duo channels Brutal Truth and Napalm Death through a modern techgrind lens reminiscent of Infant Annihilator, with a cle
Extreme metal music has always embraced a weird duality. Unyielding interest towards the horrible, the brutal, and, at the same time, the funny, and the geeky. Grindcore scene has taken it to the top – as it always does – laughing at really disgusting stuff, turning fear into power.
As time went, newer bands managed to achieve peak technical capabilities, and comic metal has become a real thing. While pulling gags many modern bands prove their insane skills in creating unrelenting heaviness.
Vitrifier is an example of such a duo — when two dudes manage to create enough deathgrind to annihilate a small country it deserves a certain amount of respect. With their second album the band perfects its style of surgically precise madness in the vein of earlier radical Brutal Truth albums with the modern twist and corky humour of modern techgrind like Infant Annihilator.
Twenty songs hardly over a minute long, Vitrifier explore the basis of Napalm Death laden grindcore, throwing on some Benny Hill jokes and stage presence – and somehow it works.
Band works with modern metal influences, so oldschool elitists should pass on that one. The sound here is as clean as it is brutal, might easily appeal to modern deathcore fans.
When it comes to jokes, there are only two kinds of people. One of them finds the song names like “I’m Sorry I Wore a Dying Fetus T-Shirt to Your Baby’s Gender Reveal Party” hilarious, and the other – just plain stupid. And if you are among the first category, it is your lucky day. Vitirifier provides stuff like “Mr Bean versus Adolf Hitler”, “The Brown Willy Massacre”, and “Nightmare on Sesame Street”. Honestly, I believe that the song names in the genre are half of the creative process.
So, to sum it up: FFO Willowtip Records musically, and autistic marijuana addicts lyrically.
