A riff-salad is often deemed to be intrinsically affiliated to music with no order and random ideas. But the best use of this song-writing approach make use of different kinds relationships between one riff and the next, and between all riffs in the song. Given the superficial independence of motifs and patterns of different riffs, stylistic consistency is, above all, indispensable.
Advertised as Thrash, UnKured make schyzophrenic music materializing the worse riff-salad nightmares. Not only does each new riff that comes do away with whatever the previous riff was saying, but influences from the most undefined and messy prog-speed albums like The Sound of Perseverance to almost deathcore-like breakdown rhythms and back to late 1980s barking death metal make an appearance.
Fans looking for the fun provided by Chuck Schuldiner’s naivete will enjoy this release even though this is less organized and more confusing for anyone trying to get an integral view of the music.
Tags: 2015, chuck schuldiner, death, death metal, Mutated Earth, riff salad, Speed Metal, Thrash, UnKured
Kool band. Totally not deathkore.
Not really deathcore. Deathcore = metalcore with low-register riffs played in dissonant intervals. This is just incompetent death metal (and definitely not thrash, regardless of what the band wants to call themselves). These guys need to focus more on having a logical step between riffs. As David already says, each song is an exercise in incoherency. However, they are probably young guys and are not lacking in drive, only discipline. Let’s hope that they sharpen their songcraft before that spirit fades.
Dear Mr Dick Head,
I sense you don’t understand the appeal of this music. “Logical” structure (or more appropriately: seemingly logical structure) is totally overrated. I just listened to Mutated World and I must say that that was an incredibly fun listen. You live in your small world where everything has to be organized. But as David wrote, this is pretty fucking schizophrenic. Maybe that exact feeling of quirkyness/restlessness is exactly what they aimed at.
You wouldn’t like Hectic Patterns, I suppose.
Cool story bro. I actually got a kick out of this record and I have their EP which was released before this one.
Please give my comments more than a glance next time because you are misunderstanding me profoundly or projecting arguments in my posts that I didn’t put there.