It’s Monday and Mondays suck, so let’s grind it out with Evisorax Goodbye to the Feast…Welcome to the Famine.
Sunday nights are usually when I wish the world would ignite the most, or at least get swallowed by a blackhole. Hence the title of this column: heading back to the dreaded weekly grind. Wigan, UK’s Evisorax has almost given birth to that wish though. Goodbye to the Feast…Welcome to the Famine has enough madness and buckshot aggression to level a small city.
“Greedy Pigs” starts out on a savage blast, leaving bits of shrapnel flying every which way. And as you should already expect from both grindcore and Evisorax, the song is brief, to-the-point, and utterly, utterly vicious. Evisorax is a band with sharp, filed down teeth. But there’s two sides to the aggression: fucking fast, and fucking skin shredding. “Greedy Pigs” is more like a precursor to the following tracks.
Evisorax is one of those bands that might deceive you if you haven’t heard them before. They play at what you think is maximum carnage from the get go. No. No, Evisorax play hard, but when they really want to break your nose they lose their shit. “All the Best Bits They Left Out of Your Death” starts with this freak out mentality. It’s a blast on PCP. And no, it’s not new, but it’s done so well on this album. Like these little bits of blasting-techy-grind thrown in to throw your ears off and blast your veins with electricity. My favorite track “Bloody Fucking Blisters” does this same thing, while still managing to constantly build in intensity until it sounds like it’s going to dissolve into white noise.
If you’re looking at those song times, you’ll notice one stands out way beyond the others. “So Many Fat People, During the Famine” is something different. It’s a slower and almost three times longer than all the other tracks. But it breaks things up and keeps the album from becoming too one-note. It’s still plenty loud, and throws in some faster/blastier moments, and heavier stuff that keeps the track constantly interesting.
Fans of Discordance Axis, The Kill, and An Isle Ate Her should get into this band, if they haven’t already. Goodbye to the Feast…Welcome to the Famine is tight, fast and unforgiving. Those that like their grind on the noisier side will find themselves spinning this on repeat. And with it only clocking in at fourteen-minutes, you should blast this on repeat.
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