With a band name like this and the accompanying album titles plus cover art this US act isn’t out to make friends amongst the religious fraternity that’s for sure, preferring to blaspheme their way through ten tunes of brutal slamming technical chugging death metal that is punctuated with some humorous sound samples the first of which is the one starting “Father Of Filth” and damn funny it is too, though with each track trying its best to inject some sacrilegious taunt they do wear a little thin after a while. There is nothing special per se about Torn The Fuck Apart except from wanting to hack your face off with down tuned rugged riffs that fit in with Dying Fetus and the mechanised blasting of say someone like Krisiun just to quote a familiar band. As said the sound samples are funny if you like the perverted side of death metal and I did enjoy the aforementioned “Father Of Filth” which takes a massive swipe at churches and paedophilia with no holds barred. Some of the groove on this track reminded of UK deathsters Nekkrosis for the chugginess. The title track is laced with deathcore like breakdowns which probably means half of you reading this have now closed this page to search elsewhere but you shouldn’t really.
TTFA manage to batter the listener with an onslaught of guitar progressions sat amongst a bombarding snare blast though “Our Serpent Saviour” has a slower part right before the massive slam and accompanying breakdown, something I have no problem with at all. “Bashed In Prophets” begins with a line from a Dexter episode, I think, about cutting eyelids off before more slamming brutishness is unleashed. The band does use the stop-start riffing style with the double kick keeping the rhythm on “Dead Religion” which also has a good sound sample and groove laden boot tapping beat. Throughout this album there are always influences such as Cannibal Corpse and Suffocation due to the heaviness and guitar riffing style. The odd fretboard run is prime time Cannibal material with the tech aspects bordering simpler Suffocation.
There is nothing wrong with this album apart from maybe lacking ingenuity but I suspect these guys don’t give a fuck about creativity but prefer to just smash the listener with a stampede of brutal riffs to tear you to shreds.
(6.5/10 Martin Harris)
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