Hour Of Penance’s fourth album packs a billion blast beats and crushing riffs with slick production guaranteed to make you stomp a bowl of white pasta the next time you think of what Italians can create. Paradogma sounds a bit like Behemoth, and slightly Nile-esque in places, and in parts a tribute to Morbid Angel. But screw all these comparisons, Italy’s Hour Of Penance have here an intense, polished album with enough variations. Paradogma doesn’t have songs you’ll be humming later, but it’s sure to keep you impressed while you’re listening to it. And you will be listening to it a lot.
Posts Tagged ‘brutal
05
Feb
10
The Quoted Tongue #3
I’m too brutal to smoke.
Devdutt Nawalkar breaks it to the tobacco lobby.
Think something can actually mess with my head? Neither did I, considering I’m always eager to hear tales of gore and look forward to people I don’t like dying in fancy ways. I was in perfect mental health till my friend Sahil Mane narrated an incident which is now stuck in my head.
On Arossim Beach in Panaji, Goa, comes a dog friendly as any other. This dog, named Dhanno, digs a hole in the sand to remove a crab hiding underneath. Dhanno then maims it with a paw, and then proceeds to gravely wound some 20-25 more crabs this way. Just when Mr Mane is wondering if this is sport, the dog devours all the injured crabs one by one!
Of course, I’ve heard of dogs that prey, and of course, I think crabs should be eaten, but the thought of a dog getting so technical and brutal with the sideways-walking crustaceans comes as a bit of a shock to me. So it’s only humans that hunt other beings for fun and games, yeah?
Mehta Kya Kehta? 