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Sunday, 25 May 2008

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Track Listing:
01. The Curses Of Perception (Intro)
02. Shibboleths Of The New Panacea
03. Science Of Money
04. Rational Actor / Definitive Host
05. Convulsive
06. Touching The Face Of God (Interlude)
07. Sowing The Poisoned Hubris
08. Industrial Land Rape
09. Decathexis

Artist: Reth
Title: Precursors To Extinction
Genre: Grindcore
Release Date: 01 April 2008
Record Label: Anticulture Records
Format: EP
Country: United Kingdom
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Overall rating (weighted)		8.0
Musicianship		8.0
Composition		8.0
Experimentation		8.0
Production		8.0
Value		8.0

The UK has its heavy music history rooted in grindcore, and Reth is concerned with preserving what made grindcore great in the first place while throwing in some modern sensibilities in the process. This debut EP is rather short, but it is primed to satisfy fans of many kinds of metal. The music that Reth plays, direct from the band, is "very tech-grind-sludgey-groovy-death metal, now with added black metal and slam influences as well in the new songs."

They aren't wrong. At its core, Reth is a grind band. The vocals are high and screeching, there is an undeniably punk sound and feel, only with a bent towards technical death and sludge. It's not rare for bands to change it up or add more than one genre into their music, but Reth has a good attitude about it. They don't have their heads up their asses and aren't trying to be something they're not.

In fact, this record is one of the most pleasing grind concoctions in recent history. Most of the time, a modern grind act is strictly bipolar. You have bands that blend extreme grind with extreme sludge, grind with death, grind with electronics, or grind with extremely technical stuff. Reth, not a band to limit, seems to do all of these things tactfully. Sometimes compromise bothers me, because it gives me mixed feelings on what a band is trying to do with their sound. With Reth, the blending of a lot of ingredients is very natural and clear. This album won't alienate any person that likes one style over the other.

To that end, Reth ceases to be a compromise. Rather, it is a wholly new and confident venture in the grind genre. The music they create is not pleasant, but the sheer intensity, attention to detail, a total control of tone, and degree of balance is sure to differentiate and establish Reth as a defining grind act to watch.

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