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By JEFF MAKI
I was a bit skeptical of Diskreet after their press release identified Between the Buried and Me as a similar artist. Noisecore bands tend to all blend together for me, with no song structure or melody. Luckily, Infernal Rise is equal parts noise and grindcore, so that comparison is not entirely accurate.
Infernal Rise is the debut EP from Kansas' Diskreet. The band makes its home on the indie metal label Siege of Amida with cooperation with Candlelight Records. Diskreet could boast the fastest blast beats around and there are no clean vocals here whatsoever. What we have are seven songs, averaging three minutes and thirty seconds each, of sonic brutality. The EP easily could have been one song, as it is nearly impossible to distinguish one song from the next. The only thing separating them are short samples used as segues. I hear a lot of different influences in Diskreet's music (and I say "music" loosely): the deathly grind of Napalm Death, the technical guitar work of Beneath the Massacre, the relentlessness of The Black Dahlia Murder and the downtuned death metal guitars of Deicide. The standout track is “Faust,” which deviates from the frantic pace a bit to cut loose a chugging death metal riff and some resemblance of a chorus. The two bonus tracks, “The Nightmare” and “Promising Demise,” are brutal death metal, a large improvement over the first five rounds of noisecore.
Extreme metal fans will find something with Infernal Rise, even if it's just the ultra-fast playing that at times threatens to break the sound barrier. For what the album is, Diskreet seems to have accomplished their goal: trying to be as extreme as humanly possible.
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