Silovanje - Taste of Death Review artwork

Rating: 6.1

Country: Australia

Release Date: 2006

Track list:
1. Taste of Death
2. Midnight
3. Recognized
4. I Raped a Rapist [mp3]
5. Gummies
6. There's a Time to Rape & There's a Time to Kill
7. I the Baby of Hate
8. Fucked in the Forbidden Forest
9. Bitch
10. Jane Doe [mp3]
11. Silovanje

Band Website: Silovanje

Silovanje - Taste of Death

Dinga - Vocals
Pedj - Guitar, Drum programming
Anand - Bass

Of the two MP3 tracks available from this sub-20 minute Aussie debut, "Jane Doe" is more representative ("I Raped a Rapist" being a cliched repetitive one-riff chant with fills). Chunky dirty Mortician juxtaposed with black metal shredding and an energetic but brief guitar lead is a fair reflection of what you are going to get. The first two tracks are misleading as they have a much thinner production (making atonal chords more legible, although the bass is still just rectal gas) so the flow is dictated by chronology rather than dynamics.

The spiralling "Recognized" is the standout track of the first half of the album, probably because some tongue-in-cheek humour has been sacrificed for grinding precision and power. Direct, fluid and convincing. "I the Baby of Hate" gives the snoozing listener a wake-up call with a blend of angry hardcore chords, twin guitar crunch/shred and simple but effective scalar guitar runs overlaying grinding blackness. The next track continues in this vein by alternating a majestic harmonised black metal chorus with a bonecrunching Cannibal Corpse verse descent. Vocalist Dinga is spitting fire and growling with fervour at this point. "Bitch" begins in Belphegor style and contains bizarre ultra-synthetic interludes which manages to sound ludicrous and discomforting simultaneously.

So we have a disordered album which isn't quite as messy and primitive as the influences suggest with some moments of fierce intensity. But... I just can't help thinking that Silovanje will simply fade out as "that band with the cheap drum machine". Yes, there are some very interesting drum patterns here but the sound samples are painfully thin and utterly tacky. I laughed out loud when I heard those kicks going at hyperspeed; honestly, if you found an old typewriter in a dustbin, covered it with catnip and recorded the sound of twenty cats jumping on it via your mobile phone, it would sound ten times better. Sort the drum/bass sonics out and then maybe we'll see an Ashes style battle between UK's Gorerotted and Australia's Silovanje. Until then, they are like Shane Warne bowling with his trousers round his ankles!

November 11th, 2006