Description
CRIPPLE BASTARDS are known throughout the grinding underground as “Italy’s Purest Manifestation of Hate” and one listen to any of their incendiary releases from any point in their over-decade-long career bears this out beyond a shadow of a doubt. With the release of “Desperately Insensitive”, the band have truly coalesced their influences as well as their experience into a seamlessly ferocious, utterly overpowering experience. Showcasing their propensity for progressing the Grindcore medium while never slackening their attack, CRIPPLE BASTARDS have pushed themselves far beyond their own precedents. Unceasingly up-tempo, “Desperately Insensitive” processes post-hardcore, brutal Death Metal, fast-core, noise/math-core and of course, the essential ingredient of Grindcore through their own barbaric, trademark sound. Featuring elements of dissonance and angularity that would have sounded out of place on some of their previous recordings, “Desperately Insensitive” stands clearly above not only the band’s previous work, but above the work of the vast majority of their peers. Recorded by at Nadir Studios Tommy Talamanca of Italian Metal act SADIST, “Desperately Insensitive” is only made more powerful and aggressive by the clean and crisp sound. Each of the 19 tracks is in-your-face, rude, and undeniable. The savagely ferocious drums provoke the massive wall of spiteful guitars and vicious bass to dizzying heights and depths of extremity and Giulio the Bastard’s manic screams assault the listener from all directions, from frantic Japcore screams, to subsonic Death grunts and pissed-off Hardcore bursts. The power and vision of CRIPPLE BASTARDS is irrefutable. The band’s anti-politically-correct political lyrics attack everyone, and especially the hypocrisy of the punk/HC scene, no holds barred, brutal spite, made even more vitriolic by Giulio’s relentless vocal delivery. In short this album is delivers on all counts, with its stylistically sadistic artwork, caustic lyrics, and of course, its monolithic Grindcore attack!
