Viddy me well oh droogie ones. In search of a bit of in-out in-out or some ultraviolence the other nochy. My branda and I stopped off at the Korova milk bar and lo and behold heard these choodessny warbles. What a razrez pop-disc to slooshy on as we supped our Moloko plus!
Ok, I’m stopping this and in case you don’t know what Nadsat is you obviously have never read Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, or seen the Stanley Kubrick cine. If not, you should remedy this at the first opportunity and next play the new album by Italian black thrashers Necrodeath as it is obviously a classic close to their heart. They might not be the first artists to render it to music, Sepultura obviously spring to mind with their A-lex opus but there’s plenty of room for more. With 13 albums to their name and a history stretching back to the mid-80’s this has probably been an idea on the back-burner for quite some time and with the theme song of the bastardised album title and doorbell ringing in our ears along with a scream they whip into this tale with panache akin to a delinquent home-invasion, taking no prisoners along the way.
The full on ‘Gang Fight’ rolls in with knives and chains whiplashing to a solid groove punctuated by urgent guitar slashes and Flegias’ vocals urging to “let’s go.” Everything is pretty high in the mix, vocals are totally “venomous” snarls and this is an opening banger and a half to set you up for the rest of this cautionary tale. Speaking of which it should be mentioned that in between most tracks are a couple of lines of narration, suitably delivered by Tony Dolan of Venom Inc. His voice really does give things a great theatricality without actually intruding on the music itself and is frankly a genius move by the band. The beat rattles incessantly through the electrifying ‘Transformer Treatment’ and the barbed hooks from the scything guitars really get under the skin and infectiously peel off the layers. The Devil’s trombone features lyrically and literally as ‘The Sweet Up And Down’ moves from a slow start to the full on furious congress. There sounds like some effects on Flegias’ vocals too as they are absolutely caustic growls that are rolled out and distorted. ‘Redemperdition’ is a simple full-on thrasher guaranteed to get heads-banging and with pure evil exuding from the vocals, it’s a perfectly rendered 3-minutes of destructive force.
‘Delicious Milk Plus’ is a creepy crawl, stalky sorta number with plenty of drum rolls and spiky guitar parts. Leading to all manner of debauchery it sees our thug under lock and key, banged up for reconditioning, next number ‘655321’ of course being his designated prisoner number. It’s not all viciousness though as there are melodious guitar breaks and sombre instrumental passages left to flow as we take in his descent. Worry not though there’s no shortage of wild flailing parts to totally wreck your neck to. With a tight 37-minute running time this has a real addictive personality to it and one that should obviously appeal to fans of its source material, no doubt intriguing the few who are not. Just to top it all off we get a guest vocal appearance from E Force and ex Voivod singer Eric Forrest on last number ‘Anti-Hero.’
Guaranteed to give you a good kick in the yarbles and then some!
(8/10 Pete Woods)
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