Goodbye Cruel World: Live & Rare Tracks - Brutal Truth

Need To Control - Brutal Truth

Kevin Sharp s vocals display their fantastic range between deep growls and pained screams that are used to great effect throughout the album. Although not mainstream by any means, Brutal Truth were always one of the more prominent acts in their field, and this is reflected in the generous production values that really help to flesh this album out, paying particular attention to Dan Lilker s excellent bass work that would almost certainly be inaudible on a lower budget release. The band only lets this studio trickery go to its head on a couple of weird occasions, namely the effects-laden finale and the curious interruption Ironlung part-way through, but thankfully they ...

Kill Trend Suicide - Brutal Truth

I was a little disappointed by this release from Brutal Truth for lacking the band s usual variety in favour of a more exclusively grindcore influenced style, but considering it s marketed as a low price E.P. despite boasting as much content as many grind albums (even taking into account the eight or so minutes of silence that bulk it out to thirty-three), it s easily enjoyed as a marginal release between more substantial efforts. By abandoning their slower death metal elements almost entirely (the exception being Humanity s Folly ), this is perhaps the most intense release put out by the band thus far, displaying hardcore punk ferocity in the opener Blind Leading the ...

Sounds Of The Animal Kingdom - Brutal Truth

prove its abilities in these areas, which is the main reason Sounds of the Animal Kingdom falls flat compared to the band s earlier, highly accomplished works. Brutal Truth have evidently worked towards a more grindcore influenced style of death metal over their career, ironically as the popularity of the grind genre died down into the mid-nineties, meaning that this album is comprised of very many very short songs. Not all of them are inadequate grind length, with a few passing the three minute mark and ending up more satisfying as a result, and the inevitable couple that exceed this to a ridiculous extreme and merely end up wasting the listener s time. With these ...