Be on your guard, Internal External Organs is back.
After a debut album in 2020, followed by an EP in 2021, the American musician Vince Otero (all instruments/vocals) has announced the release of The Brutality of Tomorrow, his second album, through Vicious Instinct Records.
The album starts with Zachariah Jackson (Covidectomy, Decline of Order, ex-Angel Splitter) on Propagating the Execution, a heavy and efficient track which immediately links moshparts, jerky riffs and massive screams while placing some more modern samples before Cybernetic Rebirth takes over with a rather similar mix. The musician shows some vocal diversity, offering Deathcore and Grindcore influences on this devastating Slam basis, but also Hardcore patterns before Visceral Desolation offers us a very short respite, followed by murderous riffs. Cavernous screams and scathing harmonics give the catchy rhythmic an interesting relief, then Callous Psyche dips into Old School tonalities to feed an uninterrupted violence. Clayton Meade (Condemned, Implements of Hell, ex-Pathology) joins the multi-instrumentalist to give Oil Embalmment a fix of strength with jerky Slam roots, then we find a short moment of calm before Soaked in Obliteration comes to crush us with efficient riffs under a steamroller of double kicks and some cybernetic samples. On the vocal side, the man is unleashed and above all extremely powerful just like on Proximity of Bone and its Industrial influences due to the samples and the riffs’ cold side. We will even find a Trap introduction on Entombed In Concrete, before the musician welcomes Larry Wang (Gorepot, Fatuous Rump, Coprocephalic, Facelift Deformation…) for stirring and energetic riffs, then he will crush us alone with Articulated Sycophant, a composition which comes back to Slam Death’s roots with a modern mix. The album ends with Flesh of the Ghost, a composition with a warlike introduction which will easily incite us to break our neck under a wave of blast.
If you’re looking for efficient and catchy riffs, you can safely turn to Internal External Organs! Without reinventing the style, The Brutality of Tomorrow draws from Brutal Death, Slam and Deathcore to create a powerful and uninterrupted sound.
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