Old brutality meets new brutality. Ice Nine Kills turned their heavy dial up to eleven on this track just to give Corpsegrinder a good baseline to go even heavier on, and the result is a face-melting deathcore-worthy slammer.
From the moment it starts, they let you know you're in for a mean one. Heart monitor beeps and a quick announcement precede an immediate dose of heaviness, with some of Spencer's lowest screams for a verse from the get-go. The drumming is relentless and the guitarwork is cheekily insane. It's just relentless heaviness all throughout, only ever stopping to prepare for even bigger punches.
It's wild how low Spencer gets with his screams and how heavy the rest of the band manages to reach before Corpsegrinder comes in. Juxtaposing cheesy love theatrics next to brutality has an unprecedented heaviness. Right before the major breakdown, they go into a false calm section so that they can slam the breakdown even harder.
The growl is inhuman and the pinch harmonics only double the pure evil, but unbelievably, it still gets heavier. I love the second buildup, the grit in Corpsegrinder's growls are incomprehensibly feral, and I love the way Spencer screams "and a fucking axe to" as if he was saying it through gritted teeth, it has such a raw intensity to it that is perfect to lead up to Corpsegrinder's one-of-a-kind growl. Coupled with relentless double kicks and low ass chugs, it is such a moment. His screams after still only manage to get even crazier, with low growls only he can manage.
It's no surprise that the best part of this song by far is the breakdown, and the addition of Corpsegrinder's iconic brutality might be one of the best things on Welcome To Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2, but I have to give props to the band for being able to match his heaviness to give us one of the most brutal metalcore songs in recent years.
Rating: 3.5/5