DEAFKIDS

DEAFKIDS     “Cicatrizes Do Futuro”

By Dr. Abner Mality

Like huge booming drums that roll over you like a steamroller? Have a hankering for Latin beats like you’d hear in Rio De Janeiro? Admire abrasive music in general?

DEAFKIDS are a couple of noisemakers from Brazil that should be on your radar. Not really a metal band at all, they still hit pretty hard, particularly in the drumming department. Although there are loops and industrial elements, the sound is made human due to the relentless drumming of one Marian Sanine, who just slaughters the kit throughout. This is the most drum-forward album yet from DEAFKIDS and Sanine really leans into Latin style percussion at its most ferocious.

On top of that, there’s a lot of distorted echoing vocals going “YAH,YAH,YAH”, “OOGH,OOGH,OOGH” and “HEY,HEY,HEY” throughout. That aspect tends to get somewhat monotonous, to be honest. There’s touches of MINISTRY, GODFLESH and TREPONEM PAL with the electronic noises, bass loops, synth bloops and rumbles that pop up in every track. The music is in no way “technical” but it’s not quite as simple as it sounds on the surface. Even if you focus on that surface, the drum barrage hits you right in the nuts even as it is danceable in a way.

Individual songs don’t matter much with music like this, but personally, I found “Profecia” and “Reflexo” to be the most powerful and hypnotic of the tracks. It’s kind of exhausting, but DEAFKIDS pummel you into the ground in a rhythmic fury.

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