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BIND TORTURE KILL “Sauvagerie”
BIND TORTURE KILL “Sauvagerie”
By Dr. Abner Mality
When the band’s name is BIND TORTURE KILL, you can make a pretty good assumption their music is not going to be AOR or prog. This French three-piece more than live up to the promise of their name and also the album title, which is French for “savagery”. This is mean, ugly, nasty music.
They describe themselves as hardcore, but there’s a bit more to them than that. The guitar sound comes right out of Stockholm 1992...yes sir, the Swedish chainsaw strikes again. But they also toss in some dissonance worthy of ULCERATE and icky sludge from the IRON MONKEY or CONAN school of brainfuckery. And when you see a couple of tracks exceeding the 10 minute mark, you know this is more than just “punch the air” 3 minute hardcore. This is the sound of warfare incarnate.
“Déchiqueté” and “Bandaison” are Swedish-tinged grindcore with skanky riffs to break your neck and the roars of a bull in pain. “Cadavres” stomps your ass flat with more mayhemic brutality but switches gears in the second half to something slow, icky and distorted that’s almost psychedelic. They keep the attack rolling with merciless precision, mixing death metal, sludge and hardcore.
The album ends with the two longest tracks, “Brule Vil” and “Cul de Jatte”. Making extreme metal tracks of this length really tests a band’s ability and BTK mostly passes the test, although I do think some pruning would have helped. The former is mid-paced grind that ends in pure tortured sludge while the latter is more depressive and experimental, with a very warped and dissonant sound.
You should know by now if you’re up for what BIND TORTURE KILL lays down. This is one grueling, lightless journey.
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