Misfit toy-grind is a suitable description of Darker Than Death or Night—the second full-length from Chicago’s Nequient. It features all the proper characteristics of a grind album—noisy riffs, unhinged vocals, frantic drum beats—but in its original, off-kilter kind of way; the album borrows elements from various genres including death metal, hardcore, doom, and sleekly dresses it all in an irreverent disguise. Darker Than Death or Night introduces itself via “First Casualty” and immediately slaps with its hyper beats and cartoonish riffs. Other tracks on the record that deliver those spastic, neck-sliding cartoon riffs more glaringly are “Consensual Hallucination” and “Bootlicker”; the latter conjures visuals of Hanna-Barbera characters scurrying ...
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