BRUTAL TRUTH — End Time (review)

BRUTAL TRUTH — End Time album cover Album · 2011 · Grindcore Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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"End Time" is the 5th full-length studio album by US grindcore act Brutal Truth. The album was released through Relapse Records in September 2011. It´s the second album by Brutal Truth since they returned with "Evolution Through Revolution (2009)" after a longer hiatus.

While the music on the album is rooted in grindcore aestethics and stylistic elements like extensive use of blastbeats and crusty hardcore riffs, "End Time" far exceeds the boundaries of what you usually hear when you put on a grindcore album. The riffs are dissonant and noisy and the drumming quirky and rhythmically complex. The band also play around with slower industrial influenced elements which can be heard on the opening track "Malice". The musicianship are on a high level, with precision playing and some really powerful and relatively varied vocals by Kevin Sharp. This is what I´d call clever and adventurous grindcore. Brutal Truth were always boundary pushers, and they still are.

Most of the 23 tracks on the 54:36 minutes long album are around 1 - 2 minutes long but "Control Room" which closes the album, sticks out a bit with it´s 15:21 minutes of playing time. It´s quite the noisy and repetitive track and it doesn´t take long before it feels unneccesarily long. It´s the kind of track you listen to once and then skip every other time you take the album out for a spin unless of course you are one of those rare folks who actually enjoy this kind of thing. The rest of the tracks are highly entertaining and Brutal Truth have made sure that while they relentlessly kick your ass they also bend your mind. "End Time" also features a powerful and raw sound production and all things considered it´s another challenging high quality grindcore album from one of the leaders of the genre. Despite the unneccesarily long "Control Room" a 3.5 - 4 star (75%) rating is deserved.
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