Suffocating Madness Unrelenting Forced Psychosis
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12 Inch
Black
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‘Social lobotomy of the masses, Don’t dare to think there are no answers, We are powerless, If we are divided, Get off your arses, The suffocation is madness’ (Imposed Restrictions)
Seeking an antidote to the bleak greyness of early January? Then look no further than this utterly feral slab courtesy of New York’s Suffocating Madness. Featuring members of Savage Pleasure, Anti-Machine, and Nurse, to name but a few, this is the band’s debut album following-up on their 2021 self-titled EP.
Blown-out guitars, squalling solos, and a pounding rhythm section unleash a thoroughly uncompromising battery of thrash fuelled metallic d-beat. But this barrage is anything but monochrome. The band are not averse to letting their more brutal groove-laden riffs breathe, such as on Slaughter and Reality, or conjuring rhythms of infectious, swaggering intensity, most notably, perhaps, on Burn and the aptly titled Wankers.
The raw, rasping vocals meanwhile launch a searing indictment of our society’s distorted priorities and one that resists with every fibre the notion that there is no alternative. Entrenched economic inequality, religious intolerance, and the rise, indeed institutional acceptance, of the far-right are all tackled with a fierce directness before the visceral, yet unifying climax of Their Legacy Shall Die. The album also includes a bruising cover of Thermonuclear Devastation Of The Planet by 1980s’ Bristol thrash metal pioneers Onslaught.