Mechanics Of Dysfunction - Beneath The Massacre

Technical death metal is perhaps the most corrupted metal genre after melodic death metal, as both have fallen far from their original splendour thanks to the efforts (or rather, lack of effort) of imitation acts that decided to abandon their progenitors' more creative tendencies in favour of a focus on extreme brutality and heaviness that often doesn't even measure up to the competition even by those shallow terms. Canada's Beneath the Massacre is one such act popularly labelled as "technical death metal," a term which nowadays seems to be applied to any band playing with fast guitars drowned out in a sea of tediously repetitive, machine-gun style ...  Read the complete review