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By RYAN MAVITY
Chaos. Listening to Destroyer Destroyer’s album Littered with Arrows, it’s about the first thing that comes to mind. This album sounds like a train wreck set to music. With downtuned seven string guitars, kick drums and vocals that sound like a screech from a Tasmanian devil, Destroyer Destroyer certainly puts the noise in noisecore.
So is it any good? It will be appealing if you’re a fan of this. Destroyer Destroyer sort of reminded me of Psyopus without the guitar noodling. The music is intended to sound like a multi-car pileup and it succeeds, like on “A Golden Technique” and “We’ve Been Had v2.” The songs aren’t meant to have any sort of set structure and that’s fine. I’ve heard enough of these bands to sort of know where things are going. I at least appreciated them more than Psyopus because they don’t have that band’s penchant for excess. Destroyer Destroyer is more in line with hardcore punk than math metal.
In a nutshell, I’m not totally sure I liked this, but it succeeds in its own way. The band certainly is intense, even if the photos make them look like Radio Shack employees. If you like your metal unusually noisy and chaotic, Destroyer Destroyer will be worth a listen. If not, you should probably skip it.
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