Misery Index

Day Nine. How about some grindcore? Assuck's Misery Index is superb grindcore. I'm actually not too big into grindcore for some reason. I ought to sit down and just listen to grindcore bands. I feel like it's going to be a lot of hit or miss with the misses out numbering the hitting (That's actually true in any genre). Grindcore seems to thrive on having one minute long songs and are often predicated on one dimensional brutal audio beat downs.
It may not sound like it, but Assuck's attack on "Misery Index" is not one dimensional. The reason why is because they follow the Slayer principle of cramming in as many riffs, textures, and tempo changes into as short a time as possible. They never do this without losing a sense of flow and coherency. The riffs are unified by a relentless sense of urgency. Rage and despair pour out every song on this album, and that is what makes it so unapologetically brutal.
The same friend that handed me Varuker's "Murder" also handed me this album. He really knew my tastes. There's fifteen songs in fifteen minutes. But Assuck have managed to compile more progressions in those 15 minutes than most progressive bands have managed to compile in 15 years. As a result, the songs feel a lot longer than they really are. Fifteen minutes go by and it feels like an hour with so much going on in any individual song.

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