Labels: self released
Review by: Kunal Nandi
On offer here are five tracks of super busy, hyper hectic, techy death metal widdliness from Florida. I kind of burnt out on this stuff a long time ago when a million bands started aping Dillinger, Converge and the like, with all the required repeat listens not really leading to anything especially rewarding, but that’s not to say QTV aren’t turning my head like those bands initially did. It’s tricky to stop all the craziness and random tangents from congealing into an amorphous blob of noise, but they do chuck out gobbets of wicked riffing that crash haphazardly into each other Cephalic Carnage-style. The production’s great and they’re proficient musicians for sure, but while Dillinger brought jazz elements in, and Converge stuck to rocking punk structures, I wonder what QTV will bring to the party to really set themselves apart.