Band: Grind Inc.
Title: Lynch And Dissect
Label: Bastardized Recordings
Distribution: /
Release date: 21/08/2010
Review: CD

Hailing from the region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and formed in 2001, Grind Inc. have grown into one of Germany’s most successful extreme Death Metal bands since the second half of this decade. After a demo, Defined To Kill, the band recorded three full lengths, Executed (Morbid Records, 2005), Inhale The Violence (Morbid, 2006), and Sudden State Of Hate (Twilight, 2008), which were reviewed very positively in, especially (of course) the band’s home country, yet also in several other European countries. Also the energetic live performances, among which an appearance on Fuck The Commerce, and gigs with Cryptopsy, Napalm Death, Testament, Misery Index or Hate Eternal, aggrandized their name within the German scene.

The band consists of former and current members of, for example, melodic Death Metal band Crikey (new Grind Inc.-vocalist Christoph is front man of this band), Hate Factor (Death / Thrash; split up a couple of years ago) or Torture Chamber (Death / Thrash; did also split up earlier this decade). Lynch And Dissect, the fourth studio assault, was recorded at Catacomb Productions with assistance of multi-talented drummer Adriano Ricci, known from bands as Blood Red Angel, Coronation, In Blackest Velvet, Night In Gales, Resurrected, and who did work with some Grind Inc.-members before in, for example, Crikey and Torture Chamber. The mix was done at Soundlodge Studio with well-known mixer / master Jörg Uken of Inhume / The Seventh / God Dethroned / Obscenity / Dew-Scented–fame. It is the first studio recording without Thomas Strater, who left the band a year and a half ago.

Lynch And Dissect lasts for 42:43 minutes and brings a groovy and pounding form of technical Death Metal. Throughout the years, the band developed and evolved, and the sound became more and more mathematic. Lynch And Dissect indeed is the most technical album to date, yet at the same time it is the most brutal and intense one too. A few times Grind Inc. balance on the edge of Mathcore / Tech-Grind (that eccentric and progressive riffing in Damned To Vengeance, for example), yet those annoying and often exaggerated modern avant-garde elements many bands introduce nowadays are rather rare in Grind Inc.’s case. Christoph Mieves’ vocals belong to the deepest ones from Germany and his growls and grunts fit perfect to the aggressive and low-tuned riffs and rhythms. The tempo varies a lot, in between the songs as well as within a song, from oppressing slow over mid-tempo, then hammering fast, to eruptional blasting.

78/100

Ivan Tibos.