Reviews : Albums : Ydin, "Silvotunna Ja Häpäistynä"

You get a fairly accurate picture of what Ydin sound like from the brutal album cover. Someone's screaming head is being sawed off. Now I'm not one for the sicko shit, but damn if this stuff didn't shoot a bolt of adrenaline straight through my temple.

Hailing from somewhere in the Finnish netherworld, the band have wrought five sadistic blasts of death-torment into a sixteen minute EP. Imagine Morbid Angel crossed with a darker Scandinavian influence. Everything on here destroys like a barbed wire tornado. Alternating blast, double bass, and groove drumming. Downtuned crunch, pinch harmonics, and blackened flutter picking. Vocals that flay with demon rasps and beast growls. And each track within a caged fury no longer than three and a half minutes.

My favorite track is "No. 1 (Pt. 2)" with its start-stop riffs slowing down and speeding up in direct counterpoint to whatever the drums are doing. It yields a militaristically brutal sound that somehow manages to be artful in its killing. Which pretty much sums up the whole EP. Watch for these guys. They've got their shit together.

Standout Tracks    Inho    No. 1 (Pt. 2)

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