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| Mistress - In Disgust We Trust Reviews |
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| Review Taken From here You're sitting down at breakfast listening to your favorite "modern" hardcore release, when all of a sudden a hirsute drunkard takes a big steaming dump in your Cheerios. In all likelihood, the smelly fellow is a member of Birmingham, England's MISTRESS and he's doing a little overseas PR for the old school, grindcore-rooted, crust-caked metallic punk found on "In Disgust We Trust". Good morning, sweetie; now go fuck yourself! Mentions of NAPALM DEATH, DISCHARGE, and BRUTAL TRUTH are appropriate in describing some of the beer-soaked and pissed off rants of "In Disgust We Trust". Shades of newer gnarly fare like HELVIS apply as well, provided you apply a thick coat of grease and grime. Belligerent, belched-out vocals with maniacal screams thrown in for good measure abound. A Sunlight Studio guitar sound and Sasquatch-on-meth drumming makes me almost as excited for "In Disgust We Trust" as I was for VENOMOUS CONCEPT's "Retroactive Abortion". Beyond the bile-choked bashers of "Happily Ever Disaster" and the title track, as well as the up-tempo grindy hardcore of "Fucking Fuck" and the barreling "At Arm's Length", the boys in the band have got a few tricks up their tattered sleeves. A melodious lead guitar comes from out of nowhere on "Static", the shock of it only surpassed by the rather catchy, clean vocal sections that somehow escape the musical claw-hammer attacks. But wait, there's more. An already slammin' tune, "Whiskey Tastes Better�" comes with hilarious Halford-esque (no kidding) operatic wailing in parts. After a hell-raising guitar solo sets off the mania of "Me Ves Y Sufres", the pace eventually drops and a series of "whhhooooaaaaas" kick in until the song fades out. The PRIEST wails pop up again, albeit briefly (replaced with gang shouts), during "Shovel", a tune that could pass as musical accompaniment to a tank division rolling over a group corrupt politicians, crooked lawyers, and pedophile priests. Some hidden track action for the last 15 minutes or so unveils filthy belly crawls and anarchistic speed romps. That does it for me. Time for a lye-soap bath. - Scott Alisoglu |
| Review taken from here Originaire de Birmingham comme un certain Napalm Death (la filiation n�est du reste pas incongrue), Mistress sort son troisi�me full-length sur le label Earache. Le groupe semble avoir puis� ses influences dans des horizons relativement divers et le r�sultat est plut�t r�ussi. Il associe la brutalit� salvatrice du grind � la Brutal Truth au feeling crust d�un Extreme Noise Terror, le tout m�tin� d�une bonne dose de punk et de rock�n roll. Ainsi, on est frapp� par le son si granuleux des guitares qui �voque les derniers albums d�Entombed et surtout Uprising (d�ailleurs, le chanteur poss�de un timbre de voix death tr�s proche de celui de Lars-G�ran Petrov). La production � la fois crade et audible s�associe donc parfaitement au grindcore du groupe qui sent bon l�huile de moteur et la sueur. Evidemment, la construction des morceaux se r�v�le assez rudimentaire et l�on peut regretter une certaine monotonie dans les riffs, qui parfois rappelle les exp�rimentations du sludge. Mais mis � part ces b�mols, force est de reconna�tre la qualit� du combo avec des titres purement agressifs tels At Arms Length, In Disgust We Trust et son refrain entra�nant ou encore Talking to God au riff principal lourd et malsain. C�est d�ailleurs dans les passages les plus pesants et les plus poisseux que la formation anglaise s�en sort le mieux. Mistress propose �galement des chansons atypiques avec plus ou moins de bonheur : on pense notamment � Static et ses chants clairs irritants ou � Whiskey Tastes Better... et ses vocaux heavy haut perch�s qui contrastent r�ellement avec l�univers du groupe. In Disgust We Trust s�av�re au final un bon disque de grindcore, au son original mais plomb� par quelques maladresses qui l�emp�chent de vraiment d�coller. |
| Review taken from here The groove is god. This is extreme metal but rather than going for all-out fast as fast can be pummeling, heavy and pounding riffage that could mosh Hellboy into oblivion are instead used to push the music forward. This is full-out heavy metal from the State of Extreme but the music is definitely informed by punk and hardcore rhythms, as though something of that realm was augmented and transmogrified and reborn as something metallic. And huge. And destructive. And ready to stomp you into the ground. review written by: Upchuck Undergrind |
| Something here not sure what it is |
| Review taken from here Mistress-In Disgust We Trust (Earache Records, 2005) This band has vintage Earache written all over it and I fucking love it. Combining Brutal Truth, Napalm Death, Discharge, and newer Entombed, Mistress stand out like a sore thumb in a time when bands are more concerned with playing breakdowns and wearing the right clothes. This is dirty music for people who like their music dirty, plain and simple. I�m not sure if you could call these guys original, or if that is even something that you should even care about. The amount of pissed off aggression coming from the speakers, and the general vibe of the band is just too cool to be caught up worrying about whether they are original. Sure, they wear their influences on their sleeves, but you�ll be hooked by the end of the first song regardless. I definitely am into a lot of bands on Earache these days, but this is the type of music that I want from Earache. This is simply put, aggressive perfection. Fans of everything from punk to death metal would be doing themselves a favour by checking out this album. |
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.: New Mistress, New Danger The new music just keeps on flooding out this week. The frankly awesome Mistress have got an mp3 online from their forthcoming debut release 'In Disgust We Trust' for Earache this June. Mistress - At Arms Length It's hosted as one of many free mp3s on www.metaltracks.com (so I'm not going to link it directly). It's an absolute corker too. More refined and better produced that the stuff from their last record on Rage Of Achilles, 'II: The Chronovisor', this bodes very well indeed for the new record. Source: iateyourmicrophone.com Mike S - April 14, 2005 08:45 PM |