2024 Rapture Records (CD)
rapturerecords.com.br
8/10 CRUSHED FUCKING SKULLS
Brazil's Blast Agony has given us their first full length, and it's a great one. It's a twisted, brutal amalgam of older Suffocation- and Krisiun-style death metal with more than a little of the South American brutal death metal sound. The stiff blasts and double bass never let up, and that's not a defect or a way of hiding anything - these guys can fucking play. The bass is high in the mix, prevalent and rumbling away, mimicking the riffs for the most part. The vocals are viciously growled, but some of it is slightly muffled like on the first couple of Suffocation albums. Little technical flourishes abound in all the brutality, like the interplay between the bass and cymbals or the wicked-ass gravity blasts. It really separates these guys from the crowd. Elements of grind really raise their head in the fast-as-fuck "Out of Control," which is aptly named. Each of their songs is quite different even if their speed pigeonholes them a bit - multiple listens or a particularly astute ear, however, reveal all the little hooks in the music that at first glance may appear not to be there. This album has layers. The vocals become more diverse as the album progresses, from the muffled gutturals to growls to roars to higher-register snarls. The vocalist does everything, sometimes in one song (at least I assume this is all done by a single vocalist). Here and there the band does slow down and give us some groove, like on the title track. This is powerful and honest brutal death metal, and worth tracking down if you're into the sick shit.
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