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SU19B  The World Doomed To Violence  LP   (R.S.R.)   19.99


Finally have this blackened beast back in stock, on both super-limited cassette (courtesy of Indonesian tape label GrindToday) and LP via German label Regurgitated Semen Records. It's another slab of crushing Corrupted-meets-Crossed Out sludgeviolence that pushes the heaviness into the red, to almost absurd extremes. Su19b first landed on my radar for featuring members of Japanese noisecore legends Final Exit (as well as Quill, Unconscious Disharmonic Malfunction, and OPS-PSF), but these guys made a name for themselves pretty quickly with their decimating blend of ultra-slow-motion sludginess and super-fast whiplash-inducing stop/start powerviolence elements. Brutal as fuck. This particular album featured ten studio tracks that were recorded between 2013 and 2015, their debut full-length, preceding the even more punishing extremes of 2017's Neutralize. Here's my old review from previous editions of the album:

Didn't realize it until I looked up the record on Discogs.com, but I was surprised to find that The World Doomed To Violence is actually the first-ever full-length album from this long-running Japanese grind/sludge outfit, despite them having been around for around twenty years. During all that time, Su19b have mainly focused on releasing their music as splits with other bands like Dot., Jenny Piccolo, and Dreadeye, but it's taken them all this time to finally deliver their own album. And boy it it a beast. From its stark black and white artwork that combines anatomical imagery with old-school death metal style horrors, to the band's rapid-fire assault of ultra-heavy powerviolence, this record is grim stuff. Starting off with a static-laced noisescape draped in sinister voices and samples, billowing gusts of dark ambient sound and rumbling distorted guitar drones, the epic title track unfurls slowly across the beginning of the album, as monstrously slow and abject as Corrupted, the guttural inhuman gurgling vocals oozing over the slo-motion crawl. But that rapidly mutates into a frenzy of shifting brutality, erupting into sludgy punk-fueled death metal and hyperspeed blastcore and depth-charge doom, vacillating between these sounds over the course of the track. From there the rst of the album blasts through shorter songs, but continues to shamble monstrously through that increasingly weird melange of sludge-encrusted metal, and further lacing this violent combo of powerviolent chaos and molten, rotten deathdoom with eerie chant-like vocals, short, brooding passages of windswept slowcore-like minimalism, surges of chaotic lopsided hardcore and intense Merzbowian electronic noise, and even the occasional searing twin-guitar harmony.

Those powerviolence traits are all over this, from the barbaric hyperfast hardcore riffing to the sudden and jarring start/stop arrangements, but they shroud those elements in a ghastly glacial death metal heavioisty that makes it all sound freshly bizarre. Might be the heaviest stuff from them so far, continuing to mine that Corrupted-meets-Crossed Out sound that the band christened back in 1997.