Masakari-
The Prophet Feeds review
This is a hodgepodge of multiple
awesome influences- Tragedy is the most prominent, with a few hints of Nails,
His Hero is Gone, maybe a little D-beat… undoubtedly, Masakari is among the
bands doing the melodic D-beat thing Tragedy started. However, this is one of the best bands doing
it- it’s a mystery as to why these dudes didn’t open for them on May 15th
when Tragedy played Cleveland. All
points aside- Masakari’s “The Prophet Feeds” is an extremely heavy, furious,
political crust album.
The vocals for the band are hoarse,
thick, barking shouts and screams- perfectly suited for the music. There’s a lot of energy there- a very
different element for crust (usually, it’s just the instruments that have the
power), and it’s for the better. The
guitars alternate between the fucking brutal rhythm parts that crush like an
unstoppable murder vehicle, and the lead parts providing depressing, hopeless
melodic interludes. The drums are all
over the place, but have an ultimate purpose of being the primary instrument
that contributes to the background noise- sometimes, the guitar becomes the
instrument of noise while the drums are the main focus. The bass is well-mixed in the rest of the
music, crunching along the remains of any unfilled remnants of the song. Ultimately, the sound is comparable to
Tragedy in many ways, but it has a different feel- whereas Tragedy has a
desperately hopeless soundtrack for humanity’s downfall, Masakari has a
soundtrack to the aftermath mankind faces (at the hands of some deity, mother
nature, whatever greater power you want to believe in). Interesting…
In addition to the killer sound the
band has here, the politics are very sharply worded and placed into the music,
and the album ends with a soldier’s speech about his service and how it has
shamed him, given what he has seen regarding racism and the Iraq occupation-
very thought-provoking. One of the
better crust albums of late, and one of the better Tragi-core bands playing out
now- grab this, you won’t regret it.
-Aunty Social
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