Plain and simple, good Swedish death metal, this is not complicated, progressive or groundbreaking, is straight up death metal with gore titles and gore art… and yes from time to time bits and pieces of what could be consider grindcore.
Those Who Bring the Torture is one of those records that after first listen they leave this sort of “curiosity” lingering around you, forcing you to listen to it again and again too see if you missed something that could elevate this record from a simple 37 minutes of fun to a misunderstood masterpiece; sadly after many listens you realize that there is nothing more than a couple of fun riffs placed here and there
The songs are short…maybe that’s the most “grinding” aspect of the entire production, because there is no real speed or anger as I’m used to in some of my grindcore (off course I could be mistaken since the band itself says that they play old school grind ala Carcass, and yes in songs like “Defiling the carcass” go figure they do pull a couple of Carcass like riffs!). the record is not bad at all, is a fun listen don’t get me wrong here, is just and this may sound a bit repetitive… they lack of one or two powerful songs that stick to your conscious and that could force you to came back for more; instead they got this nice songs that needed more work and that in time could have become really powerful if the guys just had work on them a little harder, or perhaps is not even that; it could just be the lack of “Brutality” of anger in which they approach the tracks that left me wanting more.
THBT is a good beginning, a nice solid start, they just need to find… more anger, and build an album that has at least one song that goes beyond one good riff and that would defy us to search for a deeper interpretation of the layers of music used to compose it.
