Album Review
Cell Rot – “Violent Spirals” – [Vitriol Records]
atavist 9/8/2019 12-inch, A Library
Oakland’s Cell Rot released this deput LP just over a year ago, and now it’s time to bring it to the KFJC airwaves. Recommended for heavy rotation: this is well-built hardcore flecked with metal, completely enraged and death-obsessed. The album basically drops into full speed after the introductory track and doesn’t relent. Drop in, spit your pain and disgust, repeat. Tracks are short and to the point. The vocals are furious and consistent throughout, finding that balance between control and abandon. That description could apply to the instruments as well: the band is tight without sounding uptight; they hit their marks with enough confidence to allow reckless performance to inflect the outcome. The record is so consistent that any track will do (look out for a couple FCCs). Well, except for the intro, which really is an intro, consisting of just a vocal track and brooding, ominous guitar feedback, and leads immediately to the following track. Playing both “Intro” and “Born Into Pain” could be a nice choice, and that will still only take 2:29 to play. Tracks are typically threaded together with walls of feedback—in other words, there aren’t clean breaks between tracks and you’ll have to rev up to 33 quickly when cueing (plus cut away quickly to your next track at the end). The last track, “No Redemption”, is a great way to close out the record, and might be my early favorite.
you heard it 27 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 1184 days ago, Dusty Rhodes played Drawn and Quartered
- 1184 days ago, Dusty Rhodes played Crawling Towards Your Death
- 1187 days ago, Reject Girl played Drawn and Quartered
- 1188 days ago, Whinger played Endless Death
- 1195 days ago, Whinger played Black Snake
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