| 7000 Dying Rats is a band that offers listeners with a tasty grind/metal
formula with tons of extra random clips as well. With the album being 28
tracks long, you can only wonder what kinds of stuff is crammed within this
48 minute journey. The fact is, that 7000 Dying Rats takes their actual songs
and then crams random sound clips in between. At first glance, you may be
mildly amused with the track titles and the randomness of the tracks themselves
but after a while it proves to wear off.
This album has a lot of good metallic grind material that'd go perfectly alongside many
of Metalblade's bands. But you really can only handle so much nonsense. I mean grind
has been known for offensive sound clips and song titles, but I think "Season in Hell"
goes a bit above and beyond the point of being humorous. I mean Pig Destroyer and
Killwhitneydead are both famous for doing the same thing. But even then it got a tad
bit annoying. Especially when you want to just sit down and listen to good old fashioned
grind. Tracks such as "Altar of Goat Skulls," "Hack to Bits," "Death Hammer of the Bearded
Ones," "Horrible," "Grind Fluffer," and even the ever mocking "We Had Dying in our Name
way Before all Those Metalcore Cocksuckers Came Along" proved to be amusing yet enjoyable
tracks. But I think you have to cut through too much random shit to get to the bulk of
the material. Which is the only major problem with the disc.
When 7000 Dying Rats and Hewhocorrupts Inc. decide to come out with an actual album by this
band, I want to be the first to know because "Season in Hell" is just too much random nonsense
for my likings. It'd be cool if only like 25% of the album was random, but it's not. In fact
the band goes overboard with around 75% of it being just stupid humor. If this band released
an album with more actual material, I feel as if they could actually fare well. But otherwise
I don't see much going on with them.
~ Drew
February 07 2007 |
