If Napalm Death is the Darth Sidious of British extreme metal,
then Burning Skies is surely looking to stake their claim
as their apprentice.
Greed.Filth.Abuse.Corruption is a blistering, fast-paced,
aggressive album. If you’re looking for music to destroy
a living room to, this is it. Clocking in at less than 30
minutes, Greed.Filth.Abuse.Corruption takes the grinding
guitar riffs, politically-oriented lyrics and screeching vocals
of Napalm and creates a brutal, hardcore slice of metal fun.
Vocalist Merv takes the growl of Napalm Death’s Barney
Greenway a step further, adding high-pitched squeals with
a vocal cadence inspired by American hardcore. The band plays
every song at a breakneck pace that leaves you wondering if
they’re going to strain something. Guitarist Liam adds
some truly disturbing screams that enhance the brutality of
the music.
The song titles are as metal as it gets: “You Don’t
Have to Be Dead to Be in Hell,” “Rounding Up the
Cattle,” “To Be the Man Who Has to Beat the Man,”
“Spat Out and Stamped On,” “It’s Hard
to Breathe with a Bag on Your Head” and “Slashed,
Thrashed and Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.” I’d
give this thing a good review just on the song titles alone,
but the music backs it up.
This is one of those albums where the whole is better than
many of the individual parts. It’s best just to play
the record from the beginning and let it beat the shit out
of you. Burning Skies is a metal band to keep an eye out for
in the future. |
