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Those psychos over at Willowtip Records have done it again. Kill the Client's sophomore effort, Escalation of Hostility, is a crushing blow of putrid bile in a sonic warp not heard since the earliest days of Earache. Remember when that label was the king of Grind? Remember the Grindcrusher compilation? I do and it's great that Willowtip is picking up where that label left off, although Earache releases all of Willowtip's records for Europe and beyond, so, um, what was I saying? Oh, yeah. Kill the Client sound like the bastard children of Napalm Death, version 1.0 (i.e., not the Fear Factory inspired/insipid version that became "popular" in the mid-90s) and Brutal Truth and they don't care if you care. The occasional sprinkling of Today is the Day can be heard, too. Theirs is the sound of violence, especially on "Killing Fields" and "Negative One" (the longest/slowest songs on the record) where the tempo has slowed to a crawl, certainly for Grindcore. You know you're in danger and the fury is waiting to be unleashed -- like when King Kong was jacked up on tranquilizers, biding his time until he snapped and N'Yawk was in trouble. Juxtapose that with the spastic blur of the 27 second long "Scene Queen." Just read the song titles to see that tongue-in-cheek aesthetic of being not so subtle in a political manner. As the press release suggests, this is "socially aware, ultra pissed, brutal Grindcore." Indeed. An American (fellow Dallas, Texans, actually) Napalm Death? If the shoe fits....
| Tracklist |
| 1. Defend |
| 2. Worker Ant Syndrome |
| 3. In God You Thrust |
| 4. Illumination |
| 5. Bloodline |
| 6. Riot Perfume |
| 7. Sedated Youth |
| 8. Liberty Or Death |
| 9. Killing Fields |
| 10. Gridlock |
| 11. Scene Queen |
| 12. Paranoid Patriot |
| 13. Commander In Thief |
| 14. Decorated Dunce |
| 15. Negative One |
: 28.55
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