BLEEDING FIST

Good goat almighty! Slovenia's BLEEDING FIST make one hell of a gloriously Satanic racket on the suitably named "Bestial Kruzifix666ion". That title should have been your first clue as to the mission of this rabble. You just can't teach this kind of raw and malicious black/thrash; it is inborn.

Proclaiming themselves "chaos black metallers" is pinpoint-accurate. "Bestial Kruzifix666ion" seeks first to shock the system, then to disembowel the body and wildly fling the parts about the room like a deranged, drug-addled pack of chimpanzees. Are you getting a better idea of the chaotic part of the equation now? Consider a looser, rawer version of IMPIETY and you're getting close. Transcending mere songwriting and instrumentation though is the pure menace and reckless disregard for order and civility that is conveyed on "Bestial Kruzifix666ion". It is what separates the men from the boys and invokes feelings of malevolence and a sudden urge to turn any gathering into a drunken brawl.

And yet the songs here are memorable and the more you listen the more you pick up in the way of sonic subtleties and arrangement twists. Granted, speed killing is job one, but it is on songs like "Celebration of the Third" when the pace slows and the guitars produce a kind of dissonant, morose melody (in a matter of speaking),one that impacts compositionally, although the boys would never be accused of tuning up and polishing to a fine finish, which in this context is a damn good thing. Or what about the "melodic" (in a gnarly, metal scraping sense) twin leads of "Black Magic Book"? Things really come to a head on "Dissected Dominion in Blood", which is just plan nefarious. On offer are flesh tearing dive bombings, great changeups (including gripping militaristic and shouted/spoken sections),frightful dissonance, and some surprisingly tuneful leads, all played at either breakneck pace or calamitous cruising speed.

To those not enamored with such bestial reverberations, the compositional textures may get lost in the battlefield smoke. The shock may simply be too great. The larger point though is that as fucking ruthless and noisy as "Bestial Kruzifix666ion" may be, the song centricity is just as important. The combination of elements is what makes BLEEDING FIST's Moribund debut one that promises lasting appeal.