Sadistic Grimness

I don’t give a fuck what you’re listening to right now…Sadistic Grimness makes your favorite band look like a bunch of weeping vaginas with their steamroller-style domination on Asteni.  Featuring current and former members of other infamous extreme metal hordes and offering riff after hungry riff of deserved punishment, Asteni gives you a shattered ribcage and fractured skull the way only Swedish Death can!

Asteni opens up with a blinding assault titled ‘Incongruity’; switching seamlessly between bomb blast battery and d-beat destruction. Guitars slice subtle wounds into you flesh as the drums transform and drive the song onward, making sure to change the rhythmic feel every twenty seconds or so. ‘Lieath’ sets a dark and smothering atmosphere before establishing a churning groove that snaps your neck on every downbeat.  DD Executioner’s acrid and serpentine vokills pierce the well-produced mix with their images of dead flesh and ‘Razormania’. The lyrics, which, save for the title track, are in English, are included in the book and add another facet to the dark dimension of Asteni.

Halfway through the album, Sadistic Grimness open up a portal to the underworld.  Where as the opening tracks show no mercy with their furious assault, ‘Asteni’ stalks around the edge of your sanity with a slower drum and bass driven madness.  Segueing directly into ‘Lower the Casket’, these two tracks could pass as one and, to be honest, I wish they were.  The two are great on their own but I think Asteni could use a good ten minute magnum opus that totally overloads the listener and showcases what Sadistik Grimness can really do songwriting-wise. ‘Rotting in Solitude’ contains a great twenty second passage that I wish was built upon further; the majority of the album leads you by the balls from one killer section to the other without really letting you sink your teeth in to one in particular. In one regard this is great and keeps you guessing, however, you may have trouble remembering that one part that really crushed everything you have heard previously.

Eleven tracks and forty two minutes of soulless death destruction make Asteni an instant favorite in my Book of Blasphemy. The production makes every nuance intelligible, the musicianship is flawless and dynamic and the attitude is as serious as a heart attack.  Released over a year ago, Asteni is required listening if you haven’t yet mustered up the courage to confront Sadisdic Grimness face to face! Fuck your bubblegum metal and grab a helmet!

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