And that poor little
unsuspecting Swiss Miss we all grew so fond of during our youth,
well she just got something new to worry about! "Bastardiser,"
the first U.S. appearance from Swiss slashers, Knut, (and here
we are only a few minutes in and already I've misspelled the
name into something completely... well... wrong…
subconsciously of course!) The sound falls right in with the
latest legion of Hard-Core infused Techno-aggressive, Emo-Core
fantasizers built on rage, reason and relentless noise.
Call it "Noise-Core" for that matter, it's in vogue,
but takes a sudden turn for the worse just when ya got 'em
pegged -- the riffs are pure razor, and a few of the
"pissing" variety I'm sure…
"Bastardiser" first hit the
European market back in '98 so these guys have already logged
some serious murder charges over the past few years, only now do
they make their split to a safe American haven with a growing
populous sure to welcome 'em with open arms, if not firearms.
Knut's done some time with the likes of Neurosis -- whose
musical style is yet to have been determined.
Modernized Hard-Core, heavy on the
"High-Low" as one of their song titles goes -- worth
mentioning, and we'll explore a bit of lyric here since any
attempt at so doing with the ear alone proves instantly futile
--
"You pulled my trigger sanity is
unreal change the course to run you over the urge is real…
spread my wings channel your fear preserve your enemy I feel
the strain they feed on me angst ride hate is driving me…"
and then of course the chorus? Well it all
seems to make sense in the grand seismic scheme of things.
Vocally there's a lot of Propain and Meskil's throaty roar, but
then again just about any garbled scream will do…
"Merge" is the best of the bunch
mainly because it's got a memorable groove to it in that it
can't help but stand out -- and again I like the lyrics which
either get lost in the translation or somehow make sense albeit
in a 'broken link in the chain' sort of way. "Wiped
Out" comes away in a near whisper compared to the
previous... Melodically dark, almost ambient, light vocal matter…
"Bastardiser's" not going to
creep up on anyone, but will appeal to a narrow (but growing)
scope of the Relapse or Revelation records' faithful into the
modern form of angst and all out war nerve.
