Labels: Hit The Deck
Review by: Alex Deller
Have to admit, the very prospect of Tafkata was enough to make me wet the bed a little, what with it being folks from Enewetak back in action and ready to flay the flesh from our bones all over again. Shame, then, that ‘Worker & Parasite’ doesn’t quite hit the mark, its sludgy, Southern grooves and caustic vocals all very serviceable but somehow lacking in the kind of excitement and savagery required to tip you over the edge into child-gutting abandon. To their ultimate credit there’s surprisingly little drawn-out stoner dickery for a band so steeped in Iommian lore, pretty much everything condensed into nasty little two-minute vomit burps of raw-edged hardcore sludge that absolutely refuse to outstay their welcome; it’s just that you’d quite like them to leave some sort of dent in your memory before they finished up their brief but mucky business and went on their merry way. Here’s hoping whatever they serve up next is just that smidgen more potent, eh?