Hall breaks up Regan’s seamless genre shifting with a barked Hardcore rap verse in typical fashion with Hardcore themes being the aim. Getting Scotty Hall of Street Soldier on their EP is a favour for a favour with Regan appearing on “Northern Hate”. Certainly that closing breakdown has a slither to its downtempo groove that is addictive. The vocal blend on this one is interesting with half of it pure Slam and the other half being Hardcore bark and unlike the other tracks there isn’t much in between and at times Regan sounds like a snake. Squealing guitars taking a leaf from Fit For An Autopsy‘s song book cut through the main riff while the segmentation on this one between a clear trio of riffs works really well. The bludgeoning rhythms of an impressive drum sound are testiment to Neil Hayward’s skills as well as his influences with as much Death Metal as their is Slam and Hardcore in the bands sound.
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Full of bark and bite “Killing the Industry” swirls around the drain like bloody water in the sink after a punch up. Regan’s seamless climb into Slamming Deathcore and drop down for the odd word or line into Hardcore is refreshing and seriously impressive. Rasing the tempo “Too Weak to F*** with Me” comes in swinging with a blistering set of riffs as Regan calls out a coward that he clearly has beef with. Dark and moody it sets things off nicely. The presence of Slam esq pig squeals over downtempo grooves that jump into blast beats keeps things flowing while the band change their groove sound like the gears shifting in an 18 wheeler. After 28 seconds of atmosphere building introduction “World of Sludge” drops into a Metallic Hardcore groove riff with just a hint of Slayer before smashing in with some brutally caustic unclean vocals from Regan that infuse a Hardcore lyrical styling with a Deathcore heavyweight champion throat shredding attack. Getting your title track out of the gate quick is a good sign for those looking for a tone setter for a piece of work.
If it’s the follow up to 2007’s “Welcome to Sludge City” EP then we’re about to find out but Sludge certainly is a common theme… They’ve been around since 2007 but dropped their first new song in eight long years with the title track of this EP in March. Hailing from Norwich are Annotations of an Autopsy, a 5 piece consisting of vocalist Steve Regan, drummer Neil Hayward, bassist Nath Applegate and axe wielding pair Sean Mason and Al Commons.
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