Showing posts with label Controlled Existence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Controlled Existence. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Controlled Existence / Headless Death (Dead Heroes rec)


Be careful boys and girls, this split is very spicy. This is the place where Czech fastness meets with Australian primitivism. This release sounds like a weird kind of yin and yang, on one side we have ferocious evil and on the other side we have same evil but more angry and barbaric. As you already understand, this is a very strong release, with which you need to be more careful. So let's taste this piece of noise! 
Czech fellas from Controlled Existence recorded some very “unpleasant” (for someone of course) material. This noise is fast like a rocket and toxic like snake venom. Fast catchy riffs slowly poison your mind; thunderous drumming continuously nails you down. Wild screaming like an abrasive piece of sandpaper, it erases the eardrums and causes terrible pain. The last song on this 7” is a cover of Warsore, and I must say it sounds impressive. It's really a pity that this side is so damn short... 
Headless Death is a horde Proto-Neanderthal guys from Australia. Their noise is so savage and the riffs are so heavy, that it often sounds messy and raw, but that is the point. The drum work crashes with a terrific rage, playing into the song’s overall ferocity in tempo and tone. The same could be said about the vocals: it`s really dreadful and primitive (in a good way). Sometimes drums and vocals are too loud and they get cluttered among everything else, but I believe it is a necessary element of conception. And, for the last song the guys chose to cover Voorhees.


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Friday, September 5, 2014

Alea Iacta Est & Controlled Existence 7"


One day I was drinking great Brazilian coffee, there was Baywatch on the TV and overall the morning was good. But my rest was disturbed by sudden knock on my door. I thought it was people from recruitment office, but it turned out to be postman with a package for me. Inside this package was split of great Slovakian band Alea Lacta Est and Controlled Existence from Czech Republic. Slovakian grindcore is pretty recognizable, like Czech goregrind, even if someone wakes you up in the middle of the night and ask you what's this music, you wouldn't make a mistake, heh! ALE presented 6 tracks, and the last one is very considerable trump card - Insect Warfare cover (track - Human Trafficking)!! The songs are great, such as band. Now, to Controlled Existence, animal welfare advocates, as I get it by the cover. 8 tracks of blasting fastcore/grindcore, after some time i realized that there's a woman named Lyubov on the vox. CE really impressed me with their material. I listened to this 7" quite a lot, so I guess you would do the same, 'cause this split is really good!
For contact:
Alea Lacta Est 

Controlled Existence

Rating: 8/10