Cost: $1.00
I'd like to think that bargain bin diving for so many years has given me a keen intuition based on subtle visual cues when browing through lots of inexpensive CDs. But it's largely a moot point. Because they're all so cheap, I pick up discs I highly suspect will be crap anyway just to be on the safe side. I have to pat myself on the back for this one, since I knew it wasn't going to be just plain death metal as Metal Archives claimed.
I was right, but rather than the groove metal I was expecting, I was surprised to find out it's actually a mix of both (Brutal groove metal? Groovy death metal?). Let's not pretend I'm particularly interested in a lot of the groovy and chuggy riffs here, but the guitar tone is nice and deathy, and the main vocals are mostly deathlike growls, although there is some aggro stuff. So the groove metal element I typically find most offensive is largely toned down here, and with the death metal riffage and influences here, I can tolerate it.
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