Escuela Grind is kicking off 2024 with a brand new EP that proves they’ll do regardless of the fuck they need, and do it extraordinarily properly.
Escuela Grind‘s newest EP DDEEAATHHMMEETTAAL is the third installment of their EP collection that explores into the genres that the majority affect the band – the primary two being GGRRIINNDDCCOORREE and PPOOWWEERRVVIIOOLLEENNCCEE in 2020. As you’d think about, DDEEAATHHMMEETTAAL takes a swandive into the bloody, vomit-riddled world of recent loss of life steel with all the ability and conviction of a band whose full-time job it’s to reside there.
Lengthy story quick, DDEEAATHHMMEETTAALL will wreck you. Whether or not it is the stop-and-start beatdown of “Punishment Ritual”, the call-to-destroy reside staple of “Ball And Chain”, and even the throat-shredding-goodness of Napalm Death frontman Barney Greenway on the only “Meat Magnet”, there’s not an oz of fats on this factor.
DDEEAATHHMMEETTAALL succeeds on just a few ranges, initially being its brevity. The EP clocks in round 13 minutes, leaving you simply sufficient time to surprise what the hell occurred earlier than hitting play once more. It doesn’t overstay its welcome or devolve into something meandering – each tune will get in, breaks all of your enamel in roughly three minutes, and will get out. It actually helps that regardless of these transient run occasions, Escuela Grind effortlessly alters tempos and feels in a manner that retains all the pieces as contemporary as potential.
Then there’s the truth that DDEEAATHHMMEETTAALL comes from a real place of affection for the style. This does not really feel like a band that is making a loss of life steel EP to pay homage to the bands they love, a lot because it does a band that strips away the remainder of their sound to solely showcase the loss of life steel facet. Escuela Grind is aware of what they’re doing, is extraordinarily good at it, and is right here to point out you. Interval.
And at last, Escuela Grind performs absolutely the shit out of this EP. There is no manner that no less than one snare wasn’t damaged or a complete set of strings needed to be tossed attributable to extra blood. Escuela Grind is hitting arduous and constantly all through the whole thing of DDEEAATHHMMEETTAALL with zero reprieve.
DDEEAATHHMMEETTAALL is price your time, your repeated listens, and all of the bruises you’ll possible incur.
