Labels: Level Plane
Review by: Kunal Nandi
Defeatist feature the powerhouse rhythm section of New York’s late, great, grind-tech-metal legends Anodyne, together with some geezer from Kalibas. Joel Stallings’ drums were always particularly distinctive in their inhumanly mechanized way, with every single thwack of the snare sounding as perfectly heavy than the one previous to it, with force effortlessly combined with speed. Defeatist are a much more straight-up proposition to Anodyne, but there are sudden shifts in riffs and it still tears you a new one each time you spin it. More please!
Kursk are in beautiful contrast on the flip, with their crazed, barely cohesive, scattered brand of thrash hardcore, falling about all the over the place and generally ruling. Great split.