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7.5
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ACxDC - Duration: 00:23:11
- Available from: 04/26/2024
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Prosthetic Records
Four years after the previous “Satan Is King”, an album which at the time marked the entry of Ours into the Prosthetic Records roster, ACxDC are back with their mix of hardcore/punk, grind and death metal designed to mark a hypothetical urban revolt based on clenched fists, Molotov cocktails thrown at police vans and barricades of bins.
A sound that the Los Angeles quartet, with a twenty-year career and a far from negligible number of releases, continues to manage by heart, practically without effort, caging the anarchic nature and the glowing ferocity of the aforementioned genres in a series of captivating and flowing songs, far from wanting to throw it prosaically into chaos in the name of the most intransigent powerviolence.
Produced once again by the guru Taylor Young (Nails, Xibalba, Twitching Tongues), the tracklist therefore speaks to us of a band which, if from a strictly stylistic point of view it certainly cannot be said to have the intention of broadening its horizons, remaining extremely faithful to what packaged in the past between splits, EPs and ‘long’ distance records (the quotation marks, given the genre, are mandatory), continues not to miss a single shot and – above all – to take meticulous care of the songwriting aspect, transforming ( almost) every episode that sprang from his pen in an unrepeatable exploit of violence and contagiousness.
Despite a crude and irreverent image (just take a look at the title and the cover), “GOAT” is in short a collection of songs; brutal, excruciating, paroxysmal, but still endowed with their own logical development and full of solutions capable of making them stay in your head after a few listens, with the art of the riff dictating the law on a constantly changing rhythmic base.
Between breakdowns triggered at the most appropriate moments to sow panic, breakneck blast-beats and derailing uptempos, from which the project’s crust hardcore roots forcefully emerge, what Antichrist Demoncore has packaged for the occasion is, in short, a small, dazzling blessing for all lovers of urgency and that current of extreme metal today led by a character like Todd Jones.
Just over twenty minutes of music during which it is impossible to keep track of the passages above average in terms of brutality, impact and catchiness, and which on the one hand some might dismiss as the ‘usual’ soup on the part of Sergio Amalfitano and comrades, on the other hand, thanks to devastating pieces of the caliber of “Wanna See a Dead Body?”, “Thot Police”, “Flying Pigs” and “Feel the Blade”, he doesn’t struggle to leave his mark, a bit like a amphibian forcefully pressed onto the skull. Ignorance in power, even in this round.
