Labels: McCarthyism Records
Review by: Kunal Nandi
If only I’d got round to reviewing this deeply wonderful record sooner! Perhaps the potential millions of new fans Carrion would have gotten from a few positive words from me could have saved this collection of 10 songs from becoming their epitaph! At least they’ve gone out in style though.
This is a heady mixture of aggressive hardcore, with stoner sensibilities and a punk ethic, but not entirely without a sense of fun, making it all rather charming. There’s some seriously tight playing on display “” awesome double kick-drums abound, the rock-solid bass sticks to the melody like a leech when all seems lost and guitar lines sound almost Arabic when things verge on twiddliness. Carrion is also one of those bands that marry melody to noise with incredible ease. The giveaway is the vocals. They’re all hoarse and shredded, but the guy’s actually hitting notes with pinpoint accuracy.
So, Carrion may well end up being criminally under-rated, pissing off narrow-minded music “fans” with one of the many elements in their music, but instead they should be universally praised. They are that good. Or rather, they were.