Really this should be the perfect match in terms of modern-day grind, featuring as it does two fearsome acts who forgo any dicking about and go straight for the jugular. Kill The Client slightly let the side down though, offering up three doses of outraged hostility that’re driven by plunging, tarry guitars and an overwhelming sense of righteous indignation but somewhat miss the mark thanks to the gargling vocals being a tad too quiet and the fact that the drums sound like they’re coming from some other planet entirely. True, things are certainly solid, but considering their previous triumphs this is a bit of a missed trick in the brutality stakes. Harumph. Over on the other side and Thousandswilldie are teaching us a similar lesson in violence and loathing but manage to pick up the pace considerably. Their sound is slightly more dynamic and involved, and the band seem to have found a comfortable spot in-between what they were doing on their debut EP and the tracks they doled out on the split with Psychofagist. While things have a satisfying knee-to-the-groin immediacy, you also get the occasional twitchy time change and brief burst of strange ambience to compliment the rabid Phobia-friendly grind assault, deftly showing how you can have plenty of ideas and be brutal as fuck without having to be a flash twat about it.
