Beaten To Death er snart klare med sitt syvende album.

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Det er trommeslager Christian som tipser.

Releasedato på ‘Vntrve’ er 23. oktober, alt skjer som vanlig via Mas-Kina Recordings. Om albumet leser vi: «… another gloriously unhinged chapter from a band still proudly failing to play grindcore by anyone else’s rules.

Sixteen years in, Beaten To Death remain allergic to formulas, trends, and sensible decision-making. Since crashing into the grindcore scene in 2011, the Oslo-based outfit have made a career out of twisting the genre into strange, melodic, chaotic, and frequently ridiculous shapes, while somehow earning acclaim for doing everything wrong in exactly the right way.»

På ‘Vntrve’ loves vi en samling låter som nekter å sitte stille, og for de av oss som så bandet live på fjorårets Southern Discomfort, vet nøyaktig hva DET betyr. Men modererer de seg for å bli kommersielle?

«In an apparent attempt to widen their target audience, Beaten To Death spice things up with psychedelic tales of ponies, demons, computer games, and the endless hilarity of metaldom. Whether this is a commercial strategy or simply another act of sonic»
vandalism remains unclear.»

Jeg tror du skal sitte rolig i båten, bandet vil garantert lage nok bølger til at du slipper å kjede deg.

«What is clear is that Vntrve continues the band’s long-running battle against expectation. Following a discography that stretches from Xes and Strokes to Last Maar, Ik Verhuis Naar Het Bos and Sunrise Over Rigor Mortis, Beaten To Death show no interest in growing up gracefully.

Instead, they double down on corrosive riffs, frantic rhythms, melodic wrong turns, and the kind of gleeful irreverence that has become their trademark.»

Grindcore i alle varianter

«As always, the result is grindcore only in the loosest, most dangerous sense of the word. Fast, weird, abrasive, catchy, stupidly clever, and far too much fun, Vntrve stands as another testament to a band that keeps failing to follow the rulebook, which, come to think of it, might have been the point of grindcore all along.

With Vntrve, Beaten To Death once again prove that maturity is overrated, immaturity is an art form, and chaos still has plenty of songs left to sing.»