Mammoth Grinder is a type of super-group bands that, for me personally, are superior to the constituent members’ most important bands. Off the highest of my head, bands like Black Curse and Stormkeep are different nice examples. Do not get me fallacious, I’ve quite a lot of respect for Energy Journey and the varied different originating outfits of this band. However one thing about Mammoth Grinder‘s tackle excessive music simply pulls collectively the appropriate threads to weave a wonderful sonic tapestry. And that is particularly evident on the band’s new EP, Timeless Spectral Resonance.
Whereas among the band’s earlier efforts extra conspicuously displayed their hardcore roots, this EP fully subsumes that spirit right into a purely metallic expertise. Apparently the band put quite a lot of effort into shaping their imaginative and prescient right here, as mainman Chris Ulsh notes: “On all our different data, I used to be sad with the earlier one and there was stuff that I wished to alter. This time, I knew what the band ought to sound like. However largely, I feel I used to be making an attempt to show to myself that I may nonetheless write one thing that was nasty, that I believed was sick, punky loss of life metallic.”
From the very outset, you’ll be able to inform there’s one thing totally different about this launch. Apparently Demigod was an enormous affect on them this time round, and you’ll positively hear that come via together with echoes of Dismember, Asphyx, and different loss of life metallic staples. Nevertheless, there’s a couple of different parts at play within the opening monitor “Corpse of Divinant.” In line with Ulsh: “The bridge riff was tremendous impressed by the US black metallic band Demoncy. It’s sort of jarring, but it surely’s my favourite half.” Go to the 1:38 mark and you will hear it immediately. So DAMN GOOD. Do extra of this!
Likewise, the brutal simplicity of the title monitor recollects the ferocity of Bestial Devastation and Morbid Visions-era Sepultura, whereas the monitor’s energy has refined notes of Bolt Thrower blended in as properly. It is an actual crusher, and the rationale you go to a band like this.
After an eerie and cinematic interlude monitor we’ve “Lower The Peace” (heh, cool title). This one turns up the stomp-and-groove issue, with guitar tones that recall peak-era Entombed at their slower moments whereas delivering the ability of bands like Jungle Rot, Vader, and Obituary. I suppose this tune most-closely evokes the superior art work; the demonic beast rising out of his lair to feast upon the harmless!
Lastly, the band presents us with “Obsessed With Dying,” maybe probably the most energizing monitor on the discharge. With regards to trendy, straighforward loss of life metallic, you would be laborious pressed to discover a finer instance than this rousing quantity.
The one disappointing factor concerning the launch is that it is solely an EP. The band does such a unbelievable job right here that it leaves me wanting extra. However I suppose that is a terrific marker of success as properly. The band is completely on the appropriate path with this strategy and will proceed leaning into influences like Demigod and Demoncy because the proceed to push their sound ahead. Extra of the identical, please.
