I had been putting this one off for a while, and now I have begun I am not sure why really.
This is a strange album, in the modern era we might call it hardcore speedmetal, but that still doesn't quite roll right to me. On "Cut Snake Poetry", Mind's eye is playing a kind of highspeed hybrid of "Reign in Blood" era Slayer and "Schitzophenic" era Sepultura in that they have that vile intensely angry speedmetal feel, but the vocals seem to be much more in the vein of skinhead Oi! music or English punk but with an Aussie flavour and far more aggression. The affect of this is a kind of crossover feel between very aggressive punk and serious metal, but that isn't to say that these guys can't throw down with the extreme metal bands. There is plenty of heavy shit going on here, it is just that I found the mix of styles initially to be a bit jarring, like watching Romper Stomper with the sound turned down and replaced by Slayer's punk covers album "Indisputed Attitude".
This album really has to be listened to loud to appreciate. Really fucking loud.
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