CrusHuman – CrusHuman
Release Date: 9th August 2024
Label: Horror Pain Gore Death Productions
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Genre: Death Metal, Hardcore, Grindcore, Punk.
FFO: Napalm Death, early Fear Factory, Terrorizer, Obituary, Dying Fetus.
Review By: Rick Farley
CrusHuman, born from the ashes of Washington D.C. death metal band Snipers of Babel is about to release their punishing self-titled debut album in the form of grindy, groovy metal destruction on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. Bordering the fringes of classic death metal, hardcore, punk, and industrial metal, CrusHuman is hook filled aggression that sticks around long enough to gouge out your eyes before brutalizing your lifeless body. Seventeen tracks of samples, gut punches, face kicks and crunchy fucking grinding death metal. A little Napalm Death, A little early Fear Factory and a ton of fucking punky, hardcore attitude coming directly at your skull full force. Hyper aggressive, chunky, and metallic grooviness charging in with the relentless objective of pure punishment. Not much more you can ask for, honestly, when you are just looking for something to destroy shit to.
CrusHuman is clearly not reinventing the wheel on their self-titled debut in any fashion, but seriously who the fuck cares. The record is a narrative of the human race, and all of its atrocities calibrated to crushing musical extremes that set the stage for a near future post-apocalyptic world that we’re seemingly heading towards. A chaos filled metallic soundtrack, if you will, for the end of times.
A couple gripes to get out of the way, while this record is raw and obviously not meant to have pristine production, it’s a little uneven throughout. The drums could be a little punchier at times, and sometimes hit soft at crucial heavy moments. It is in no way bad production, but various aspects feel a little flat at times. The guitars will be bright and crisp on one track and seem a little dimmer on others. Also, while the album has a good runtime, at seventeen tracks of varying length, several tracks are a minute plus and others are over five minutes. The longer tracks towards the end create listener fatigue based solely on going from one extreme to the other. It becomes a strange dynamic. Though for the type of music this is, these critiques really do not hold much weight in the overall enjoyment of this record. It’s really all about cutting loose the restraints and destroying everything.
CrusHuman hit all the sweet spots of the extreme metal spectrum. Galvanized has a bouncy low tuned industrial feel to it, giving classic Fear Factory vibes, while Code Grey utilizes heavy groove mixed with chaotic speed and guttural nastiness. A fast-paced electronic dubstep beat comes in at the two-minute mark, which gives the track an extra cool factor. Assassins Special bring the fast angst filled punky riffs with added Napalm Death flavouring mixed in, while Death is Watching is heavy as fuck and jaggedly groovy, begging the listener to break their fucking neck in glorious riff worship. Death metal growls yelled in a hardcore like cadence add even more hookiness to the already punchy rhythm section. If this song doesn’t move you violently, seriously it’s time to check your pulse, you’re probably already dead.
All said and done, CrusHuman is a fun record to just turn your brain off and fucking jam. Do not think about this one hard, just rip it out, crank it up and try not to hurt yourself too much.
(3.5 / 5)
