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Country: Holland / Holland Release Date: 2008 Record Label: Scrotum Jus / Every Day Hate Records Track list: |
Dr. Doom / Collision - Split CD
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Dr. Doom: |
Collision: Wouter aka Tammi - Vocals Bjorn - Vocals Luc - Guitars Boris - Bass Job - Drums |
From Holland you have Dr. Doom, an eclectic grind band with a misleading name. Don't frown now – imagine how awful Dr. Grind or Dr. Crust would sound. Dr. Doom borrow influences from several genres namely grindcore, crust/hardcore and even doom/stoner and they shuffle it up into their music as thoroughly as a card dealer under pressure at a reputable casino would. If the expansive dirge-laden doomy music similar to His Hero Is Gone in the opening song draws you out in the open and makes you feel vulnerable, it is for a reason because you are then promptly ensnared under the intricately woven technicality of Converge wherein you struggle for a brief while before Pig Destroyer's slicing execution cuts through the web and gives you raging sense of newfound freedom. When repeated with its kind of randomness and haste, this can get quite exhilarating. Initially it may appear as though all their elements are haphazardly overlapping each other, but you will realise later, after a few listens, that is indeed masterfully done. Unlike other grind bands, Dr. Doom's music affects you not just physically but also viscerally, which is why they are a band to watch out for in the future as well.
It is Collision's turn now and they happen to be quite eccentric too. In their aggressive grindcore music they have merged elements of thrash, punk and crossover music. For a full-fledged reference, imagine if you will a collision of grind acts such as Blockheads, Din Addict and Nasum with thrash/crossover bands like S.O.D., D.R.I. and Nuclear Assault. Without doomy influences to break their momentum after the odd song in the middle, "Plastic", where they sound like Soilent Green, they race through the remainder of the songs, changing tempos as often in a song as a fastidious mom would change the diaper of its only baby in a day. The highlight of their music is when the retro thrash breakdown rears its magnificent old head over the settling mayhem; it brings out the same jumpy reaction in you like when you witness a swollen bee ominously emerging out of an enclosed flower that you just plucked. Interestingly, Collision have two full time vocalists who shout and yell at each other in varying pitches like two brothers fighting over a common girl, probably a cousin. If you are open-minded and don't mind punkish/crossover vocals or influence in your grind music, then Collision are surely worth checking out.
Both the bands on the split here are far more interesting than your average grind band and their offbeat music is well supported by the production too. It is really not like the typical case where you hear a song by a grind band and you know exactly what the rest of their material sounds like. All in all, this is short but entertaining split and almost makes you want to tear your hair out in excitement.
July 30th, 2008
    
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