Torn the Fuck Apart is one of the most unpretentious band names in extreme metal, and it’s also an example of “truth in advertising”: their music delivers what the name promises. Much the same could be said for this Kansas City’s band’s new album that’s due for release next month: Kill. Bury. Repeat.
But here’s the thing: as brazenly and unpretentiously violent as these names are, TTFA operate more like mad surgeons than crazed slashers or thuggish butchers. Their technical talents and precision are damned impressive, their songwriting is often head-spinning in its intricacy, and the music — while indeed bludgeoning and berserk — is catchy as hell.
A lot of people already know that, because Kill. Bury. Repeat. is TTFA‘s fifth album, and they’ve backed those with a lot of live performances over the years. But even people who are already ardent fans will likely have their eyes popped open by the new record, and newcomers (especially those who have a taste for death metal in the vein of such groups as Suffocation and Cryptopsy) will have something to look forward to eagerly when Gore House Productions releases the record.
As a sign of what’s coming, today we premiere a hellaciously exhilarating album track named “Corrosive Form“.
L-R – Brandon Mitchell (Bass), Michael Langner (Guitar / Vocals), Dylan Watt (Drums)
Photo Credit – Jeffrey Sisson
TTFA have a penchant for gruesome lyrical themes that match up with their name. With respect to the song you’re about to hear, the band gave us this comment:
“It is a song about the disposal of a body through chemical reaction. A song inspired by the serial killer John Robinson aka Slavemaster; a serial killer, con man, embezzler, kidnapper, and forger who was found guilty in 2003 for three murders committed in and around the Kansas City area. On a farm in Kansas, a task force found the decaying bodies of two women in two chemical drums, and in Missouri, they found three more.”
There is indeed a maelstrom of ruinous madness in the song itself. Operating at a full-throttle pace from the very start, the band open with a maniacally swarming riff that nevertheless includes a vivid pulse, and then switch into a whining and writhing sensation that also includes feverish jackhammering jolts.
There’s equally ruinous tumult in the low end and equally manic progressions in the snare-work (though it often fires like a machine weapon), with monstrous gutturals barking the words like a huge hellhound.
But as the song surges ahead, subtle changes in the rhythms and the riffing keep coming, one after another, along with sudden stops and starts, without detracting from the song’s overarching sensation of crazed cruelty.
And as forecast, the song also proves to be a highly infectious disease as well as a big dose of adrenaline. See for yourselves:
If that whets your appetite, and it certainly should, below we’re also including streams of the previous album singles, “Stuck In The Trunk” and “A Statement Of Malicious Intent“. Credit for all the tales of murder, madness, and mayhem goes to these three marauders:
Michael Langner (Guitar / Vocals)
Brandon Mitchell (Bass)
Dylan Watt (Drums)
The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Robert Rebeck at GFM Recording and Chapter 2 studios, and the phenomenal cover art is the work of Giannis Nakos at Remedy Art Design.
The album will be out on October 6th, on CD, cassette tape, and digital formats, and it’s available for pre-order now.
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