This is a review of a split album between Sweden's Usurpress and international band Bent Sea which was released by Selfmadegod Records in the year of 2013 and we will start off the review with Usurpress a band that h as been featured before in this zine and plays a musical style I would describe as being death crust.
Drums range from slow, mid paced to fast drumming along with some blast beats, while the bass guitars have a very strong, powerful, heavy and professional sound that dominates throughout their side of the split.
Rhythm guitars range from slow, mid paced to fast riffs that combine Swedish style death metal with crust and grindcore to create a sound of their own along with some melodic guitar riffing as well as a brief use of clean playing, while the lead guitars which are only utilized briefly are very dark and melodic sounding guitar solos and leads.
Vocals range from deep death metal growls to high pitched screams along with a brief use of dark melodic clean singing, while the lyrics cover dark themes, as for the production it has a very strong, powerful, heavy and professional sound where you can hear all of the musical instruments that are present on their side of the recording.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Usurpress and if you are a fan of this band, you should enjoy their side of the split. RECOMMENDED TRACK "City Of The Nomads". RECOMMENDED.
Next up is Bent Sea a band that plays a mixture of grindcore and noise.
Drums range from slow, mid paced to fast drumming along with a great amount of brutal sounding blast beats being thrown into the music, while the bass playing has a very strong and powerful sound with heavy riffing that dominates throughout their side of the recording.
Rhythm guitars range from slow, mid paced to fast riffs that combine brutal grindcore, crust and noise together to create a sound of their own along with a small amount of melodic riffing, while the lead guitars which are only used briefly are very chaotic sounding grindcore guitar solos and leads
Vocals range from crust style shouts, deep death metal growls and high pitched grind/noise screams, while the lyrics cover everyday themes, while the production has a very strong, powerful, heavy and professional sound where you can hear all of the musical instruments that are present on their side of the recording.
In my opinion Bent Sea are a very great sounding grindcore band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out their side of the split. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "At Any Cost" and "Nature Of The Beast". RECOMMENDED.
In conclusion I feel this is a very great sounding split and if you are a fan of death metal, grindcore and crust, you should add this album to your collection> RECOMMENDED BUY.
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