PARRICIDE -

PARRICIDE - PATOGEN - MAD LION  
Could it be that this writer who is not getting it? Patogen has the title and photography that spells out pathology and zoology, yet the lyrics all hint at psychology, fear, horrors and neuroticism. Even the intro is the sound of a bee buzzing around. Did the band move on from physical horrors to mental ones and the artwork was slow to react? They do have a song called Politics too and its lyrics read like beat poetry. There will be no honours for guessing what the band’s sound is though. There is a dosage of death metal worship here but the bulk of the band’s material is grindcore of the slow-fast-medium pace variety. The snorting growler upfront and the hyper-distorted guitars ride atop of a semi-Ok drumming and collectively they grindcore the opposition to oblivion. For fun’s sake, presumably, the Polish member shifters throw in a couple of technical jazzcore moments too in order to rock the nation (or something). For cliché’s sake, the album contains a cover version of Benediction’s Subconscious Terror. - Anna Tergel