Death metal is one of those genres and Spinal Cord is one of those bands. This is flawlessly executed death metal. It's technical, seamless, brutal, harsh, evil, and not unlike a hundred other bands out there, but the fact remains, this works. This is a CD that you can put on when you are in the mood for music so violent it is felonious. I mean literally.

This is musical assault and battery. The melody used throughout the CD only further emphasizes the ruthlessness of the overall sound by providing contrast.

Spin Doctors: Here Comes The Bride

Spinanes, The: Arches and Aisles

[Issue Sixty-Nine // Feb-Mar-Apr 2005]