Raw Nerve - Review - 14/04/2004 |
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| ISOR "Post mortem peep show" Casket music 10 Tracks 37 Mins 1. Takes smiles & friendship trials 2. Coping with your ginger secret 3. Perfecting the vegan death grip 4. Techno sonic sunshine 5. We are the people that watch you shower 6. I know what rhymes with orange 7. My best friend takes a 14 round magazine 8. 18 wheel massage 9. Swimming on chief Brody's day off 10. You can't make a clown out of cocoa This album carries huge hopes after an impressive debut EP, and with a tense clean guitar and tom filled drum pattern intro building the mood immediately, with a crystal production, things continue looking good for Isor. After one minute the chaos clatters its way in, and "Takes smiles & friendship trials" starts its face peeling mission. Huge riffs, timings out of the window, vicious and murderous, like Dillinger fighting with God Forbid, referee'd by no-one and judged by the underground legends Canvas. The chugs are purely head melting, the patterns are all over the place and the screams finish off your tattered eardrums. Canvas are mentioned, mainly as a reference for the sound, and it is not surprising to read that Dave Chang is at the desk for this one, with his trademark sharp, but full guitar sound, crisp drum track and multi-layered vocal takes. The man is a legend and Isor have given him something pretty special to work with here. The UK's answer to the genre defining Botch could quite possibly be here, mixing everything from out and out hardcore to chaotic noise-core, to screamo styles in its purest form, to murderous metal thrashings. "Coping with your ginger secret" is a bitterly punishing song, "Perfecting the vegan death grip" has some amazing riffs and lovely, darker, quiet parts, "18 wheel massage" does everything I want it to (similar to Thirty called Arson for those who know), great chug / discordant high guitar chords, rocks out and caves you in. Fans of noisy, harsh, dissonant metalcore need this. Isor mix it up so well, and need your attention. Paul Raw Nerve |
