Now that's some real meat!
moscow's SCRAMBLED DEFUNCTS have served up such a portion of bloody cutlets that not everyone will be able to handle it. On closer inspection, Hackled In Gore turned out to be highly technical brutal death metal of the American school, which knocks you off your feet with its onslaught and doesn't let you get back up — and you don't ask it to stop... more! more! Blood — you scream, choking on it — a genuine massacre.
Although what comes from the speakers is American-style fare, what comes to mind for some reason is only the name of the German band NECROPHAGIST. Except that SCRAMBLED DEFUNCTS don't focus on solo guitar masturbation a la Yngwie Malmsteen. Our compatriots break up the dense wall of guitar-and-drum sound with well-placed horror intros and orchestrations (a nod to the films Hellraiser 1 & 2, The Sixth Sense, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, From Hell) — the result is genuinely frightening and eerie, and entirely fitting. All of this splendor is seasoned with pulsating, attacking bass, sharp guitar solos, and insane, bestial vocals.
Overall, the release's production is at a very high level and satisfies in every component. Everything is done professionally. Even the fact that a drum machine was used in the recording — very competently programmed, by the way — doesn't diminish the joy of fans of technical brutal sound extraction. All those twisted rhythmic patterns, endless breaks, and fills simply fried my brain.
It should be said that brutal music is not for everyone, and this kind of sonic violence is for a very limited circle of people — but if you count yourself among them, then charge ahead to the barricades.