| “Mother War,” though, the third
number, sprays kerosene on the walls and lights a match; and the album’s
title track, which comes fourth, throws a Molotov cocktail through
the living room window. If the music on Nihility is more bricolage
than Shining New Thing -- a little Chuck Schuldiner here, a touch
of Trey Azagthoth there, a trifling dash of Erik Rutan, a fine misting
of Carcass -- then it’s a pretty God-damned convincing cut-up.
Its constituent parts (breakneck low fuzzy guitars & basses, mathematically
precise drums decorated by explosions-in-the-void cymbals, and occasional
guitar solos that range from high-squealing to twin-guitar sweet-howling)
may not offer many new tricks at which to gawk and point, but the
dedication with which Decapitated put this stuff across -- well, to
quote the guard at the door of the Great City of Oz, “That’s
the horse of a different color everybody’s always talking about.” |
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