| CD REVIEW Trigger The Bloodshed |
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Band: Trigger The Bloodshed The UK-quintet Trigger The Bloodshed was formed in 2006, yet in their home country they’ve gained an enormous popularity in mean time. Not only their live performances are very ‘well-visited’, also their nomination for the Metal Hammer-award did increase the importance of their existence. Purgation is the debut full length, consisting of seventeen tracks with a total running time of thirty seven minutes. Indeed: short tracks, this could be an old school-oriented Grindcore-monster. Partly this is correct, yet the real ‘old school’ isn’t applicable. The latter gets especially due to the modern production. However, I can’t ignore a certain feeling in my stomach (stom-ache?) that reminds me to the late eighties / early nineties, because of the ‘simplicity’ (which does not necessarily need to have a negative definition in this case!) of the tracks. Early Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse and even Terrorizer, it’s just a limited idea of which bands could have been of influence to Trigger The Bloodshed. At the same time, nevertheless, Purgation does not come with something renewing. That’s not necessary, but in the case of this band it might have been the case. Most songs shine with a complete lack of originality, and what’s more, more than once I smell some copy-alike atmosphere. A ‘hardcore’ Blast-Death or Grind-fanatic will love this with gorified pleasure, but I think there’s better material nowadays in this scene. A positive element is the variation in tempo, or better: the (very) few slower, more up-tempo-oriented passages (the overall tempo, however, is ultra-fast, with almost always the same kind of -too easy- machine gun-drum salvos). And finally I need to add the superior assistance of Sarah Jezebel Deva, one of the most important (session) vocalists in the heavier music scene, whose great voice brings a tiny and limited yet important enlightenment on Purgation. 65/100 Ivan Tibos. |