Have the Danish metal ever had it better? Hardly.
Bands pouring out from kælderskakte, rehearsal rooms and garages all over the country, but on the pladefronten is the particular metropolitan Generation, the Rising and the Artillery, which this year has delivered the most memorable hærg.
Now mix the jutes, however, in the domestic genretop in the form of Fredericia’s quite awesome Lifesick, which throws the ’Swept In Black’ up with so much bile that livsleden get completely life-affirming effect.
With ten bestial grunting numbers in 30 minutes wasting the quintet is not the time of their second album, where a edderspændt mixture of thrash and hardcore sends d’gentlemen through the red box.
Originality and variation is not Lifesicks greatest of virtues, but the material is definitely solid, and the echo of the splendid orchestras such as Slayer, Entombed and Power Trip flow together as a highly competent and kraniebaldrende response within the style.
The relentless sound possesses just the right combination of dirty grumhed and hate weight, while frontman Simon Shoshan appears to say the least, unhappy in particular the ’Torment of Life’, ‘Suicide Spell’ and ‘Cage of Fear’, as they probably can’t use to so much at Fredericia Tourist office.
It can metalfolket all over the country.
the Cover to the Lifesicks second studio album, ‘Swept In Black’, recorded in Aarhus with producer Jacob Bredahl.
