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Noisem - Blossoming Decay review




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Band: Noisem
Album: Blossoming Decay
Release date: June 2015


01. Trail Of Perturbation
02. Burning
03. 1132
04. Replant And Repress
05. Hostile End - Hollow Life
06. Cascade Of Scars
07. Another Night Sleeping In The Cold
08. Graining Enamel
09. Blossoming Of The Web

On Blossoming Decay, Noisem play really angry death/thrash/grind music. Why are they angry? Is it the destruction of the environment, the implosion of the middle east, the replacement of human values with mindless consumerism? Or is it because they play mindlessly angry death/thrash/grind music?

The music is basically ramped up Slayer with larynx shredding hardcore vocals, generous dollops of Napalm Death, early death metal riffage and blast beats. That sounds like a pretty good combo doesn't it?

Except we've already heard just about every riff Slayer could ever come up with in a million years. We've already heard these kind of death metal and grindcore riffs a billion times too.

It barrels along angrily and mindlessly. Every time it shows even a hint of doing something interesting, the band goes back to barrelling along mindlessly. It does slow down at one point at the end of the fifth track, "Hostile End," plods along for a bit and then gets back to angry death/thrash/grind for the rest of it.

And herein lies the problem. Each track on its own is enjoyable. And all the tracks are enjoyable because they sound essentially the same. So combined into an album it sounds like one long angry track with a mindless ploddy bit in the middle. At least the album is short enough to not get totally sick of it.

It's a real shame because Noisem have a potentially winning formula. They just need to learn to expand on those interesting bits and not just revert to belting out rehashed thrash, death or grind bits that all sound exactly the same.

And while they're at it, they might want to consider some aromatherapy. All that anger can't be good for you.


Rating breakdown
Performance: 8
Songwriting: 6
Originality: 6
Production: 7

Written by deadone | 06.05.2015




Comments

Comments: 6   Visited by: 96 users
06.05.2015 - 19:59
LasseMomme

Dude... what the fuck.
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06.05.2015 - 21:36
Ras

I don't understand the Slayer references. The Napalm Death reference makes more sense, though I'm pretty sure this guys are pulling way more from ENT and Anti-Cimex in the grind area. I don't think I'd even call this thrash, but that is obviously a debatable point. This album starts off like a dirge that turns into a bloodbath. In terms of thrashy references, the absolutely guttural, belting bass in Blossoming of the Web reminds me of Handle with Care if Nuclear Assault grew an extra set of osmium balls.
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06.05.2015 - 22:55
Hawkk44

Written by Ras on 06.05.2015 at 21:36

I don't understand the Slayer references.


I agree, I've never gotten a Slayer vibe from Noisem. I don't really agree with this review at all, I quite enjoy their stuff.
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07.05.2015 - 17:07
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Tried it I didn't like it
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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08.05.2015 - 23:35
Lionthrone

Band link doesn't work.

Anyway, I want to give this a 1 rating on album title alone.
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08.06.2015 - 13:19
Ilham
Giant robot
I've listened to their first full-length some time ago, and I agree with Ras, I wouldn't even put them in the same genre category as you have. I don't know if they changed with this one, I intend to find out, your review has me puzzled.
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