An album release from Madicide delivers a fierce and threshing metal approach that takes elements of the genre's old and new school styles and blends them with an abundance of high octane, endless energy along with powerful performances throughout the entire record.
The self-titled album bears many metal influences, and as the record unfolds, you begin to pick up on more and more of them.
The first track, "Nicotine Love", starts off with a clean intro and bursts into a massive riff with swagger and style in that guitar performance so you already get the vibe and feel of how the guitars are going to be throughout this record right from the get-go.
This, of course, is a very guitar-driven record and doesn't really follow a classic cookie cutter style approach but instead gives you all these elements of different metal styles for each track.
You have melodic, thrash, speed, classic, punk, and more all rolled into this one fat album and it's a lot to soak in but it's damn fun.
The second track, "The Pit and the Pendulum", wastes very little time getting thrashy. This is an example of some of their speed and thrash mental approaches with a riff that just conquers everything.
Throughout this one you can hear some great pitch harmonics on those guitars, along with brutal and fierce crew vocals that give that slight Punk underbelly as well.
The way this record was recorded also gives some of that classic and old school field because you have this element of reverb effect on the drums and some of the guitars, for example. This is a thing a lot of metal albums used to do. It's in the vein of classic Pantera, for example.
You get that aesthetic and feel from a lot of these tracks because of the way it was mixed and performed.
The drumming on this record is insane. It adds tons of drive and ultimately pushes all the songs through the roof energy-wise.
This is a record that you should listen to from beginning to end. Each song has something new to offer along with the familiar and thrashing metal approach. There are also some surprises around the corners of this record that you might miss if you only listen to one or two tracks.
Yes, listening to a song or two of this record will give you an idea of what you might expect; however, it will not give you the full spectrum of what the album has to offer as a whole.
There's a bit of depth and loads of layers to this record.
One of the things that grabbed me the most is the fact that it feels live. This whole album gives you the essence of a live performance as if they recorded it all live on the floor.
It feels like all the players involved were just feeding off of each other's energies the entire time.
This lets the songs feel alive and breathe along with that aggression, fierceness, and rumbling tonality.
Songs like "Trapped In Purgatory" are a perfect example of that live-energy feel.
One of my favorite tracks on this record, which, in my opinion, is one of the most driving and punchy ones, is called "Death March", which, funnily enough, is a bonus track at the end of the record.
It's got that stop-go, palm-muted metal feel with crew vocals in between those riffs, so you get that classic punk aesthetic mixed in with that heaviness.
This shows even more of their influence from different metal subgenres such as hardcore, 80s and 90s metal, and you can hear bands like Slayer and Anthrax in there.
This was a shredding and blistering metal opus of an album, and for anyone that has a true love for the genre, you cannot miss this record.
Again, listen to this one all the way through. You don't want to miss songs, especially if you love this stuff. Every track has something awesome to offer, and there is no break in that heaviness or energy level.
This is a neck-breaker of a record, so listen to it loud and remember where you heard it first.
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