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7 out of 10
They have the right credentials; metal legend in the production chair (James Murphy, look him up), previous experience in underground music (Bodies In The Gears of The Apparatus, Dehumanized) and a big metal label backing them, so how do Florida’s SWWAATS fare? Pretty sweet actually.
I was pretty much expecting some shoddy "deathcore" half-assed attempt at Death Metal on receiving this album, but they manage to pull it off with aplomb. Coming from the brutal, grind-affiliated side of DM, they keep the energy levels up throughout most of the album. A single-minded dedication to blasting is made clear and hammered into your head on a constant basis occasionally throwing in the requisite chugging and grooves, but these only make the crippling speed sections all the more better for it when they change back up a gear.
The vocals growl and yell across all of the DM madness. In fact they're the only real throwback to any sort of hardcore influence; this is DM through and through, and it's all the better for it. The guitars have a solid meaty tone, triplets, pinch harmonics, scale runs and twisted chords are wrenched out of the guitar tricks bag to throw into the mix.
As with anything like this, it is slightly one-dimensional but in the grand scheme of things that just makes them seem all the more unrelenting. Definitely a very cool surprise.
Listen: www.myspace.com/swwaats
Tracklist:
1. 10,000 Sermons, 1 Solution
2. The Realisation That Mankind Is Viral In Its Nature
3. Cattle
4. Agenda
5. Pity The Living, Envy The Dead
6. Despot
7. A Path
8. Automated Oration And The Abolition Of Silence
9. One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy
10. Colossus
11. Retrograde And The Anointed
12. Of Worms, Jesus Christ And Jackson Country Missouri
13. The Tamagotchi Gesture
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