As you may know, music underground is a cheerful and friendly place.
People in this community help each other in different ways, and I think
this is great! Here is another proof of "underground friendship" - 8
labels gathered and published this split together. This modest
seven-inch vinyl includes two excellent bands: international team Matka
Teresa and Polish guys from Suffering Mind!
Our lives are
poisoned with all types of crap that surrounds us... Our minds are
infected with information disease. All those bastards want to make us to
do what we do not like - to fight, to die. And it is not even clear for
what and for whom!!!!!!! It just happens that we are now going through
big and complex time of multiple military conflicts. In fact, World War
has already begun long time ago and we just go deeper and deeper into
this mud. This split is called «Next Children Generation», its design
was made by vocalist of Matka Teresa. To
tell the truth, among the many types of art design of grindcore things
the most "catchy" themes for me are those depicting innocent children.
It becomes truly terrible when you see kids with guns, starving and
dying. And even a complete idiot would understand that those old men
with their power and their games that go too far are the ones to be
blamed.
What could possibly be common between Slovakia and Spain? You could waste a whole week thinking about it, but I recommend you to listen to this split instead! These bands are huge friends for sure, they toured together in Europe and then made a split!
Alea Iacta Est is not a new band for me, I already did a review on their split with Controlled Existence from Czech Republic. Sometime later I got another package from Attila.
The band presented 7 new tracks on this split. To be perfectly sure, I listened to this split three times and here are my thoughts about Slovakian side. The band has grown up both in making music and sound. Overall mood is the same, but nevertheless, I heard some fastcore and even powerviolence there. I really enjoyed it! Fast as machine gun drums, evil screaming vocals and bloody fingers of guitarist and bassist! When combined, you really can't go wrong with this tracks, hehe!))
And now let's take a look at Rageous Intent. I guess it's pretty young band on Spanish grindcore scene. By the way, the one who plays guitar here is Gerardo Fernandez from legendary Denak! RI side contains 5 tracks of good grindcore massacre. Everything is in place, the sound is not as good as Slovakian has on their side, but nothing to be done here, it's how it is. But their art cover is completely another story! Sex-symbol of terrorism Ronald McDonald hugging a SWAT team member. Great idea, really funny and has a deep social meaning!)
Rating: 8.5/10 7/10 Alea Iacta Est Rageous Intent
