Spitfire

The Dead Next Door (Solid State)
by Tim Den

Coalesce, Converge, Isis, Today Is The Day: Meet your new step-brother, Spitfire. He’s got your energy, spastic tendencies, torturous sludge grinds, eye-popping screams, evil guitars, and all-around noisy shit to fit right in with the family. Does he have the “artistic” inlays as well? You betcha. Sketches of living creatures, no less (for all you new to the noise/spazzcore genre, it’s essential you attend art college and draw mosquito anatomy on everything you find). Tons of cut-and-paste style songwriting too, slipping from jazz guitar to neo-Slayerisms without blinking an eye (and what noisecore band doesn’t do that these days?). He also fits in with the family because he’s recently discovered Incantation after listening to Gorilla Biscuits all his life, and he actually uses these traits and influences well. Take the closer, “DJ Jazzy Steve,” for example. Weird. Sounds like an old Goatlord record that sat out in the sun for too long. Interesting, to say the least. And no less brutal than all the other members of the family. Excruciating pleasure.
(PO Box 12698 Seattle, WA 98111)