The Italian grind scene sometimes reminds me of a mixed cocktail. Half
of the bands are blanks, or even worse, while the other half are freaking
amazing. A while ago, I wrote about mediocre bands from that region but now
it's time for a good one.
Cavernicular is from Palermo
city, and play a heavy style of "rock n roll". The band had a great
start with a self titled debut ep, and now they`re back with new material.
"Man's Place in Nature" is the first full length album from this band...
Well, I was really excited about this noise, and have been waiting anxiously
for it, well... needless to say, its been worth all the wait. This is a nice
mix of crushing bass assaults, furious grinding guitars, plus very fast and
skillfull drumming, and crazy yells. Maybe it doesnt seem to be very
interesting from first impressions, BUT … The cover art is pretty standard
stuff (in the grindcore genre)... the remains of some german (?) soldiers. The
most interesting part is inside. I didnt really get this album completely, at
first listen, and i thought to myself, okay this is just another grindcore
album, just like any other,"nothing special going on here", but then
i realized there were a lot of small but catchy stuff: great riffs (at some
points it reminded me of strangely mutated thrashcore), groovy hardcore
structures and of course different types of vocals. There are not many of those
moments on this album, but still, they are to be found here. I love that every
song is chained together, that makes this album even more attractive, appealing
and surely more aggressive. The biggest part of Cavernicular have experience in some hardcore/fastcore/powerviolence
bands. I'm sure thats
the main reason why this album has so huge influences of these genres. Songs
like "Asshole's Sermon", "Secret War" and "Demon Gang
" features plenty of swingin, jumping hardcore energy and fun.
Boys and girls, if you dig this kind of noise, then youre gonna LOVE
these 20 annoying songs!
Rating: 8.5/10 Сavernicular bc Cavernicular fb
Dont be slow and buy this LP thru Roedel records!