Krisiun
Works of Carnage (Century Media)
by Martin Popoff
Krisiun’s reputation has always ever so slightly exceeded its substance, but still, the band are at the forefront of traditional death metal, Brazil’s new tireless and nomadic ambassadors crafting redlined and circuitous extreme music that forms a revolving door of testimony and praise with the top American acts playing the same shitholes, often on the same crappy night. Moyses, Max, and Alex took a lot of stick for the door-knocker production of ’01’s Ageless Venomous, and this one’s no huge correction, Cryptopsy knob-jobber Pierre Remillard rendering Max’s bass drum as a metronomic moronic, non-stop, synthetic reality, turning speed into a grid.
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