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Amherst to Boston transplants DeathAmphetamine sure knows how to thrash both brutally and melodically. Along with Deceased\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Surreal Overdose, The Lost Album is some of the finest thrash\/punk\/death\/grind but mainly thrash cut to tape in recent years. This trio isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fucking around. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a unique backstory to go along with the release of The Lost Album, as it would seem that the original masters were stolen by crackheads!? Since the band loves peppering their blazing riff grind with sci-fi\/conspiracy themes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very fitting that the story of the record is about the last man on Earth uncovering this MIA album in the midst of wartorn, post-apocalyptic distress. <\/p>\n
Sadly, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t reveal the names who perpetrated this work as the Internet is getting increasingly dysfunctional and harder to find information on. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t load Myspace anymore, the group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bandcamp is sparse on information, the press sheet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s appropriately vague, and I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even strain my eyes looking at that Facebook Timeline mess. Ugh. Remember when the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnet was neatly organized? Maybe, I should have checked Encylopedia Metallum, but to be honest, I just kind of want to write about the music at this point, since it’s bubbling fresh in my cranium like a vat of dissolving acid. So the strong soldier on without information and hopefully don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make an ass out of themselves (yeah right). Opener, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Story so Far\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an FX-fucked smatter of key\/organ drone ran through a meatgrinder of sci-fi laser blasts. It has you thinking that this record\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to sound like Voivod\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Outer Limits or something along the lines of creepy space prog\/metal, yet when \u00e2\u20ac\u01531-1-2-3-5\u00e2\u20ac\u009d starts us off proper with a gravity defying stop\/start blast beat and riffs to match, you know what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re really getting into. Deep space tremolo picking lends a black metal atmosphere to the band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s relentless grind, while the chunky slowdowns, dual vocals (a scream and a low growl), and rapid fire guitar solos cement DA firmly in the classic death\/thrash dirt. <\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Losing it All\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the first real standout. Sounding a bit like Dismember in the early going the band revels in Swedish melody, limber bass groove that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cleanly played, and fluid, mid-tempo double bass. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to follow is some of the most rock n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rolly thrash ever cut to tape, the riffs strangling a Motorhead groove into submission over a rollicking d-beat punk tempo as rebel guitar solos cut a swath straight to Jupiter and back. The rest of the track never chooses the easy path; they drop off right before the midpoint with what sounds like an epic crust break (Tragedy\/His Hero is Gone type stuff) that lets the toms give a tribal workout while the guitar adds a few melodic note patterns beside that gorgeous bass tone, but that idea is quickly crushed like a soup can by interstellar, blackened grind then reassembled by chugging, mid-tempo thrash grooves before the whole thing collapses into an abyss of the exact same manic, rocked-out thrash that kicked things off in the first place! Wow, you can call me a fan right about now because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Losing it All\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a classic thrash song if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever heard one. They work the same formula on the shorter \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dactyl Nightmare,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d grind, black, thrash, and death coming together in an orgy of semen, douche, intoxicating Slayer riffs, and grinding d-beat carnage with just a little bit of Northern darkness stalking the background. Another exercise in tight songwriting and structure comes in the form of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Black Moment,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and its intro melodies that are somewhere between Tragedy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s melodic stuff and glossy Swedish melo-thrash (Dismember, At the Gates\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the hard stuff, not In Flames). Once the song itself begins to take shape, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re greeted with an executioner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s axe of kinetic crust-punk with overtly melodic riffs, jazzy clean bass runs, and hyperactive drumming that stops and starts on a dime, pounding out a typically thrash-y rhythm one minute, a punk d-beat the next, and working technical snare fills in between nearly every stylistic transition. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still enough terse, palm-muted thrash groove to remind your head of which beat to bang on, and just when you think they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got nothing left in their arsenal DA spazzes out with some grindcore blasting, throaty hardcore punk vocals (there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Lemmy inflection going on), and Slayer shred soloing for a fulfilling metal romp that strides the fence right between Deceased sounding thrash\/death mince and Tragedian punk groove. <\/p>\n
The album\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second half is no slouch either, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Immortalist\u00e2\u20ac\u009d kicking things off with potent, unfiltered thrash\/grind that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about ear irreverent aggression and methlike reflexes. But as you might guess from what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been yammering about so far, this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a band that likes to stay in one mold and the group presages the climax with an explosion of slightly melodic black metal where the lead guitar shines with frostbitten arpeggios beneath a shower of concrete blasts and bass licks that eat, sleep, and shit a jazz-like, clean proficiency. I mean there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not one bum track in this batch, which leaves me looking for an exit point for this review. How much more can I say to convince you? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll tell you that the mid-tempo thrash chug at the 1:30 mark of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Domestic Human\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is one of the best of its kind\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6or how about how \u00e2\u20ac\u0153More Sauce for the Goose,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d opens with wailing, completely sung power metal vocals and has the best set of riffs, solos, breaks, grooves, and rabid crusty, d-beat belligerence of the entire album? Yeah, I could write another 1,000 words easy, but let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talk to the conductor about stopping this train before we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. <\/p>\n
DeathAmphetamine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Lost Album is essential for thrash fans. The instrumentation, concept, and songwriting are all top-notch. If Surreal Overdose, and Satanic Royalty are two of your most played \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fast\/extreme\u00e2\u20ac\u009d metal albums of the last year, well this is what you should be buying next. No ifs, ands, or fucking buts about it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6this is thrash the way it should sound, with a lot of other cool elements putrefying the mix. And, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153More Sauce for the Goose\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has a nearly minute long guitar solo to die for that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s by far one of the best you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to hear all year long in the thrash realm. This review is already too fuckin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 wordy, and repetitive\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6buy this damn album as I shut the fuck up and go listen to The Lost Album one more time! <\/p>\n
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