Metal is often all about heaviness. One
needs to look no farther than Metalsucks recent 'Heaviest Breakdown
Ever” contest for confirmation of this fact. Yet few bands can
really employ this twisted heaviness on a level that really takes
metal to a new playing field. With Scorn Primitive
Man do exactly that, crafting a record that is ridiculously heavy and
not afraid to get its hands dirty in the pathetic realities that face
the common man every day. Toss in some more esoteric ideas and you
have yourself the latest Relapse release, a tribute to all that is
gloriously heavy, metal for the ages, metal for the unholy year 2013.
Interestingly
enough, the metric heaviness of Primitive Man can not really be put
into a genre box, at best I might call it brutal sludge metal, to
capture both the creeping doom of many of the riffs and the ear
decimating might of many of the songs. These guys know how to write
masterpieces that are slow and simply frightening in how brutal they
can get. This album makes me realize that there is a whole new level
of brutality which metal has yet to breach, that the super slow and
brain crumbling power of some of these riffs is maybe best left
alone. For Primitive Man have uncovered something violent and great,
with these sounds Scorn seems
ready to summon the elder gods from a slumber from which they should
have not been disturbed.
In
conclusion, this is one of the most impressive metal records of the
year in terms of heaviness alone. Not a lot of bands can reach the
antediluvian depths that Primitive Man plunge to on this album. Their
unique brand of doomy brutal sludge metal is not to be trifled with,
and I for one am impressed by the groups initiative and their ability
to force metal into new domains with their grinding force, a bone saw
that will not let up and instead only become harder and more evil.
Suffice to say this record is definitely not for everyone.
Introverted and strangely glorious I am looking forward to hearing
more from these guys in the near future.
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