Crackdust finally unleashes the dust!!!

--- DENTED REALITY ---

From the desktop of DJ Taotao:

Crackdust has been around since mid 2006 and to date has only been credited with the release of their single “deranged psychopath”.
The African death metallers have finally brought together their finest brutal carnage in the form of “dented reality”.
A 16-tracks-40-minutes non-stop mayhem, “dented reality” is indeed metal and very death metal and of course very very heavy.

Unlike their sound from the earlier offering of the single “deranged psychopath”, dented reality is a beautiful noise that displays an unpleasantness and volatility that is as compelling as it is authentic.

The band lays down the battle plan with a testosterone-induced-bad-ass opener “ruptured”. It comes on like gangbusters; unleashing a wall of solid double kick drum-guitar-bass teases before dragging you into an all throttle mosh-pit bloodbath.

“Children-of-the-evil-beast, come-along-to-have-a-feast…” machine gunning vocal chunks spit right into your face, body-guarded by gut ripping relentless riffology and undeterred drum blasts leaving your mouth with a sweet-bile-after-taste. From this point you’re hooked, the song clings with fangs of a hungry female tick; persistent, paced, varied, butt kicking with a take-no-prisoners-attitude. As the song expires, it’s like you’ve just had a ten seconds wet kiss with a hurried hooded stranger in a busy dark alley…pleasantly haunting… Indeed a “…harvest-of-body-parts…”

You’re then led by hand in an intense-maniac-skull-cracking dark journey through the album as you meet tracks like “birth of hatred” which explodes with simplistic, lovable axe works and bounce drum brilliance; an unpretentious, driving, true galloping death metal enigma.

“Desecrate” is a serious head banger; delivering a very powerful mix of the detuned 7 string guitars and ground shaking bass seasoned with offset confident instrumentation, closing with a spine-chilling daunting exotic solo.

The band settles down a bit with memorable grooves of the likes of “breeding the undead” while “grind the flesh” swings at you like a primitive bone-club maniac emerging from a foliage in an ally lit only by grey darkness “..thunder-as-machete-meets-bone…corpse-after-corpse-on-the-floor…” culminates in a killer slow grinding outro that takes the living breath out of you.

Enter the harmonic terror of “consumed”; quite a mesmerizing piece. The pendulum of intensity reignites as the head-drilling riffology of “mass for the dead” hits the lights bringing a rush of venom in your veins.
The journey goes on with the melodic reign of “born of the sorcerer’, the radical jumpy-jamming “price of truth”, the speakers then bleed with the emotive black sheepish delivery of “subliminal sorrow”, through the mighty “deranged psychopath” and on you go with the blistering-fire-branded-assault of “fate”, class metal tune in the name of “mortal decay”, vocally dense brilliance of “tainted saints”, unparallel delivery of the classic “son rosobola” that creates a field of fire around your butt and finally a rundown that hammers it home with the ecstatic vibe of “retribution” leaving your jaws on the floor.

Indeed a hair-raising, spine-chilling, palm-sweating journey; definitely worth a thousand words.
The songs are in a sense stand alones, while without any loss of coherence. They are pretty diverse, from some slower tunes to animal intense speediology; virtually every song is guaranteed to have its own impact.

Crackdust definitely has given it all. From the double pedal assault of the opener to the mosh mania of the closer, its obvious the band subscribe to the less-is-more theory of musicianship; keep it simple, keep it rocking, no compromises. The solid bludgeoning riffs, throaty growling vocals and no unnecessary clutter provide a muscular mix of riffastic heaviosity with a solid unblinking bass mix and an opaque rhythmic drum onslaugher as well as memorable melodic solos; making “dented reality” a very enjoyable listen. It’s lush, organic, dense and it sizzles.
As tight as a fish’s asshole.

If you’re into metal, give it a listen. If you love death metal, make sure you give it a listen. If you like Crackdust, you’re gonna dig this shit!!!