Artist - Balatonizer
Album - Occlused in Ottusity
Label - This Dark Reign Recordings 2004
Website - www.balatonizer.com
Reviewer - Erik Beyer
Can I say, Holy shit?! The cover of the album is very misleading, not that I should be judging anything by the cover. First, look below at the track listing. Read the names of the songs…read them again, ‘cause I know you didn’t get many of them, and then think about the fact that the longest track is 1-minute and 29-seconds long.
So, this album is flat out amazing. These three guys pull off this music, amazingly, and keep in mind the drums are programmed…and I would not have known if I didn’t read about the band first. I also would have never picked this band to be from Long Island. I was picturing more along the lines of Brazilian, or something over in Europe. This wall of sound is brutal, as it should be! Their self described sound is called vulgar-death-grind style. Frankly that explains quite a bit for me. But I should tell you, that these guys have put some very serious effort behind this project and have created a hellatous masterpiece. The sounds they have come up with, the vocals tearing your freakin’ head off, and a wall of energy that is very unforgettable.
This 3-piece band consists of Mario Musumeci on vocals, Marco Failla on guitars and programming, and Rodan Di Marie on bass, has compiled this powerful string of songs and sound effects to make for quite the listening experience! Take this project, plug it into your system, crank it up, and then tell me how you feel after only half an hour. If you are ready to listen to it again, then man, you got stamina! If you are ready to sleep on it after one time through, and if you feel exhausted by it, then good. You have completely experienced something your brain may never forgive you for.
Track Listing:
1. Intro
2. Muscular Prevarication
3. Corporal Usurpation
4. Ciccio Tagliavia
5. Brutal Devastation
6. Ciamme
7. Anfame
8. C.E.P.
9. Petra Lavica Etnea
10. Abominations of Triviality
11. Diabolos
12. Occlubinated Eyes Convergence
13. Scacciatieista
14. Pulverization After Intimidation
15. Inebetit 16. Eaten
17. Cerebral Regression
18. Guttural Satisfaction
19. Macabrotic Poetry
20. Microscopic Brain
21. From the Obsolation to the Obeteration
22. Putrification of the Mind
23. A ‘Cinto No!
24. Sbigottit
25. Primitivity 46
26. Reborn in Ignorance
27. Se So Sa
28. Sucaman
29. Ottenebrated Perseveration Through Mental Disorder
30. Occlused in Ottusity
31. Anal by Anal
32. Tristeza
33. Muscular Prevarication (video file)
