Monday, April 16, 2012

Catheter/Southwest Doom Violence/Selfmadegod/2012 CD Review


  Catheter  are  a  band  from  Denver,  Colorado  that  has  a  history  dating back  to  the  mid  90's  with  a  musical style  that  I  would  describe  as  being  crust/grindcore  and  with  this  newer  release  they  have  added  some  doom  metal elements  and  this  is  a  review  of  their  2012  album  "Southwest  Violence" which  was  released  by  Selfmadegod.

  Drums  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  drumming  with  a  great  amount  of  brutal  sounding  blast  beats  being  thrown  into  the  music,  while  the  bass  playing  has  a very  dark  tone  with  riffs  that  follow  the  riffing  that  is  coming  out  of  the  guitars  and  at  times  they  have  a  very  powerful  sound to  them.

  Rhythm  guitars  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  brutal  gindcore  riffs  that  are  also  heavily  influenced  by  crustcore  and  doom  metal  and  there  are  little  to  no  guitar  solos  or  leads  present  on  this  recording.

  Vocals  range from  deep  death  metal  growls,  high  pitched  grindcore  screams  and  crustcore  style  yelling  along  with  some  spoken  word  samples,  while  the  lyrics  cover  hateful  and  everyday  themes,  as  for the  production  it  has  a  very  strong,  powerful  and  heavy  sound  to  it.

  In  my  opinion  this  is  another  great  recording  from  Catheter  and  if  you  are  a  fan  of  brutal  crust/grindcore  with  a  doom  metal  edge,  you  should  check  out  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Cant  Dream"  "Conspiracy  Control"  "Doom  To  Grind"  and  "In  This  Moment". RECOMMENDED  BUY.

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